By Jack Mars
Reid Lawson, aka Agent Zero is no longer working for the CIA. He is not disavowed, but neither is he welcome. Those days are over -- or are they?
Zero is a man with questions:
"What happened?"
"What's next?"
"Who am I if am I not 'Agent Zero'?" Most importantly,
"How will I strike back at the assassin who took the life of my wife?"
Zero is a man in conflict.
If those challenges are not enough, Lawson is feeling the bodily effects of the old memory suppressor (see Agent Zero Book #1). Though long-ago removed, it continues to wreak havoc, slowly deteriorating his brain. The prognosis is not good. Zero must get answers to his neurological problem (no small feat when he believes he is the only one on the planet with this problem) . . . and he must find and end the life of Stefan Krauss, the assassin who has so altered his life.
Zero Zero is Book #11 in the Agent Zero espionage thriller. Mars continues his exceptional work of developing his characters. There are plots and subplots and he has us (me anyway) wanting to chase them all down.
You may be wondering, Why is Book #10, titled Zero Zero? Jack Mars provides the clue in the front matters to this book. Zero Zero: Atmospheric conditions that reduce ceiling and visibility to zero; the ejection of an occupant of an aircraft from a grounded stationary position. Tough conditions. Zero visibility. A grounded agent. Hmmm, seems like the perfect title.
If you have read the other books in the Agent Zero series and enjoyed them, this one is just as good as the rest. If you haven't turned a page on an Agent Zero book, PLEASE, go back and start with Book #1. Just give yourself some time; you are going to get hooked on Jack Mars and Agent Zero.
Recommendation:
Agent Zero is a life "under the sun" perspective on evil and the solution to it. I've worked my way through all the books. Good and evil duke it out in every Agent Zero thriller. Kudos to Jack Mars for never hiding from the evil of evil. The world is flawed. Zero's family is flawed. Agent Zero is flawed. We see it on every page. Zero is trying to stop the madness. He wants to get it right as an agent, a friend, a husband, a dad; but the reason we are on book 11 and on our way to book 12 is that he can't. So the question I'd like to ask Mars to answer is, "Why?" Why the evil? Why can't he stop it? Who can?
This book and this series is very good. I am on my way to the finale!
