The Zero
- Author: Jess Walter
- Narrator: Christopher Graybill
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 10:40:47
Synopsis
The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.
From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor, and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen, and real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel.
Performed by Christopher Graybill
Chapters
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Chapter 001
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 002
Duration: 15min -
Chapter 003
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 004
Duration: 10min -
Chapter 005
Duration: 17min -
Chapter 006
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 007
Duration: 11min -
Chapter 008
Duration: 05min -
Chapter 009
Duration: 03min -
Chapter 010
Duration: 11min -
Chapter 011
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 012
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 013
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 014
Duration: 14min -
Chapter 015
Duration: 12min -
Chapter 016
Duration: 13min -
Chapter 017
Duration: 08min -
Chapter 018
Duration: 09min -
Chapter 019
Duration: 07min -
Chapter 020
Duration: 07min