Zero Day David Baldacci

"War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. 

As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there’s much more to this case than they had first thought. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems, and nothing can be taken at face value." 

Synopsis quoted from goodreads

Date read: I forgot

First impression of this book is that ‘Zero Day? What the hell this book is about? It is about the apocalypse? Zombie? Infection? ’ After going through the synopsis I realize that this novel isn’t about the end of the earth or something. It’s about US army stuff and some police agent story.

I did not get the idea behind naming of the title. This novel is full of action scenery and are very army based. I was thinking after finish the novel perhaps this could be made into a movie or a drama series. This novel contains a lot of information that you have to understand in order to proceed with the storyline.

When I say understand meaning there are some terms that are very scientific. Not that you have to do research on that just so you know what it is. It is a good thing that the storyline also tells the readers what are the scientific things that they are talking about.

The storyline goes along with the main character John Puller who I kind of relate him to the role of James Bond. He has a brother who is in federal military prison due to treason. His brother is being considered a genius and a crazy person. John’s father is a fighting legacy in the military where everyone knows about and are respect to.

As depict in the synopsis from Goodreads, he works closely with a homicide detective Samantha Cole. I believe that there are something going to happen between both of them. But in the end both of them still goes on their separate ways if I remember correctly.

I remember there is this one scene where Samantha commented on how John always fly around United States going to different cities in just one day. She said that it must be a pleasure to do it. John answered her with one sentence that impress me “I don’t travel for pleasure, I travel with a gun.”  I mean how he can be so man and so perfect (obviously fangirling).

In climax of the story I am bombarded with a lot of chemistry atom equations and reactions. Although I studied in science side in my high school year and I know clearly that I hate physics and chemistry. The only thing that I can understand is the word ‘hydrogen’. Yup, that about it. I kind of worry about this book as it tells us what a nuclear bomb is consists of. Isn’t this is some kind of confidential information that only the scientist know about? (I’m just joking)

I did wonder if all the chemical reaction are real. Hmmmmmm…….. I am impressed that the author did take time to come up with this idea and carefully craft it to fit the story and not confusing the readers.  All in all for me this is considering a heavy reading because you have to picture yourself being in the situation watching the character doing all the action as if you are in the movie set except you have to listen clearly and understand what they are saying in order to get into the storyline.

                                                                                             

In conclusion, If you did like some exciting and fun and hardcore fighting action novel to pass your day I would recommend it to you.