Zero Day

A Jeff Aiken Novel

By: Mark Russinovich

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

A technothriller for the malware and Stuxnet era

An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.

At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious cyber terrorism attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.

Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today - it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.

©2011 Mark Russinovich (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

great book

Great book. Will definitely follow through any subsequent titles! This was the first book in the series

Went the wrong way

I feel like the really interesting part of this idea, all the problems that follow on a failure of the digital world and computerized systems, was glazed over in favor of how viruses work and a poorly written ethno-political motivation of digital attack.

wake up call

Would you listen to Zero Day again? Why?

the action is thrilling - the threat is real

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

details were up to date and correct

It's okay

It's an interesting subject and the premise is plausible but I found it a little long for the story to unravel. The ending was not as dramatic as it could / should be and this left me a little flat at the end.

Outstanding Technothriller

probably my 2nd favorite technothriller author behind Matthew Mather. Marks understanding of computers is far more comprehensive than Matt's and hes a phenomenal writer but Matt is better at character building, creating suspense, describing horror and has more action scenes.