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Page Count: 496
Printing Date: December 31, 2003
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Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are bored and disillusioned after a decade as Washington senior staffers, and the clandestine Zero Game sounds like good fun. But when someone close to them ends up dead, they realise the game is far more sinister, and soon they're running for their lives.
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Saw this book in a bargain hopper at the grocery store. I have a rule about buying books, regardless of price, without taking a look at a review first. I made a note to check out some Amazon reviews when home. The reviews turned out to be positive, so I picked it up at a Walgreen's a few months later.
I'm amazed by what a great novel this was. Gripping suspense, believable fight scenes, great geography, realistic dialogue, this was fun. While there were some slow spots and a couple curious areas in the plot (made easier by going back and re-reading a few key paragraphs), I truly enjoyed the story.
While I may not become a Meltzer devotee overnight, I would certainly find myself picking up another novel by him at a used book sale in the future.
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I have noticed from quite a few other reviews that a lot of us fell for the same thing with this novel. The cover description doesn't match what happens in the book. I have read about half of this very long book and I believe that I have had enough. I really don't care how it turns out. The main characters are so poorly developed that I don't care about them in the least.
The book has had several truly unbelievable things from what I have read thus far. The person telling the story for the very first 50 pages suddenly gets killed. This alone should have made me pitch the book in the nearest trashcan. After all, how could he be telling his part of the story if he is dead?
The story is then mostly told by a guy named Harris who is a friend to the very first dead guy. At one point we are told that Harris is older than Matthew, the very first and dead narrator. Another time we are told that Harris is younger. Silly and bad editing.We don't care one thing about Harris. He is a totally unsympathetic character.
Harris starts getting pursued by a professional killer whome he bests and outsmarts several times as he just barely keeps ahead of the bad guy. Silly and unbelievable.
Harris enlists the help of a 17 year old girl. He figures she is the only one he can trust. Silly and dumb. The dialogue between Harris and the girl is inane. I couldn't figure out what they are talking about most of the time.
More unbeleivable things: No one ever calls the freaking police, Harris hitches a ride on a FedEx plane with the underage girl and no one ever questions either of them, the killer is always able to figure out where Harris and the girl are no matter where they go, silly fight scenes where Harris always gets the better of the trained killer, Harris runs out on a meeting with his boss a US Senator and is never questioned about it by the boss, the deputy attorney general of the US is threatened and intimidated by a thug, the author described the mine in South Dakota and I absolutely could not figure out what he was saying the description was so poor. I could go on and on.
It is enough to say that I feel conned by this author and publisher into buying something that didn't even resemble its billing.
The good about it is that the general plot is sound and the concept of the game is interesting. A good writer might have done something with it. For that alone I give it two stars.
I see Zero Meltzer in my future.
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I just finished The Zero Game by Meltzer. My third book by this author and it was another blockbuster!!!! 2000% better than Dan Brown!! This book grabs you from page one and never lets go!!!! I couldn't put it down!!!! A must read!!!!!!
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While I was very disappointed with Meltzer's The Tenth Justice, I found this book to be terrific.
It seems Meltzer has evolved away from the "random collection of misfits with one skill that will make each one indispensable" school of plotting. In this book, the characters are pared down in number and given much greater depth. Well, unless they are the villains, in which case motive is only lightly waived over them.
Meltzer has provided a tense, thrilling read in The Zero Game. I highly recommend this if you are a fan of the thriller genre.
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While not the best thriller on the book shelf, "The Zero Game" is pretty good nonetheless. Meltzer mentions the amount of research he did on the day-to-day inner workings of Congress for this one and "The Zero Game" does offer an interesting look behind the scenes, especially for political junkies. The action is fast, strong and entertaining. I don't want to create a spoiler, but I will tell you that Meltzer pulls a nifty trick with very first person narration - one that I've never seen done before.
I give this one a grade of B+.
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