The Zero

Jess Walter

ISBN 10: 0060898658 / ISBN 13: 9780060898656

Published by HarperCollins September 2006, 2006

About this Item

6.25 x 9.25 inches approximately. 326 pages. First edition. Black cover with silver script. Dust jacket protected in Brodart. Signed by the author on the title page in black felt. Fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 504378

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Zero
• Publisher: HarperCollins September 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060898658
• ISBN 13: 9780060898656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Brodart
• Signed: Signed By Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

National Book Award Finalist 

"Political satire at its best: scathing, funny, dark. Grade: A.” —Entertainment Weekly

The breakout novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter: In the wake of a devastating terrorist attack, one man struggles to make sense of his world, even as the world tries to make use of him

Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It’s been only five days since terrorists attacked his city, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his life—as if he were a stone being skipped across water. He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound that he doesn’t remember inflicting. His son wears a black armband and refuses to acknowledge that Remy is still alive. He seems to be going blind. He has a beautiful new girlfriend whose name he doesn’t know. And his old partner in the police department, who may well be the only person crazier than Remy, has just gotten his picture on a box of First Responder cereal.

And these are the good things in Brian Remy’s life. While smoke still hangs over the city, Remy is recruited by a mysterious government agency that is assigned to gather all of the paper that was scattered in the attacks. As he slowly begins to realize that he’s working for a shadowy intelligence operation, Remy stumbles across a dangerous plot, and with the world threatening to boil over in violence and betrayal, he realizes that he’s got to track down the most elusive target of them all—himself. And the only way to do that is to return to that place where everything started falling apart.

In the tradition of Catch-22, The Manchurian Candidate, and the novels of Ian McEwan, comes this extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped making sense.

About the Author

Jess Walter is the bestselling author of eight novels, including The Cold Millions the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories.