Zero Day
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he’s seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.
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US Army CID agent John Puller is sent alone to the West Virginia coal-country town of Drake to investigate the murder of Army Colonel Matt Reynolds and his family in their rented house.
Baldacci's Zero Day is the first book in the John Puller series, which continues with The Forgotten, The Escape, No Man's Land, and Daylight.
Each book stands alone in terms of case, but Puller's personal arc evolves across the series. Most readers prefer to start with Zero Day.
Zero Day was written by David Baldacci, published in 2011 by Vision.
Zero Day is 449 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Zero Day takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Zero Day is a standalone novel by David Baldacci, not part of a series.
Zero Day is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
