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Zero Day (Puller #1)

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From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.

And Zero Day is where it all begins....

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting...more

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Published October 31st 2011 by Grand Central Publishing (first published January 1st 2011)

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Nov 26, 2012 Jan Derksen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

David Baldacci Spanning van hier tot Washington In een kleine plattelandsgemeenschap in West Virginia waar nooit iets opzienbarends gebeurt, wordt een gruwelijke vondst gedaan. Een echtpaar is in hun eigen woning op brute wijze om het leven gebracht. Het lijkt in eerste instantie een zaak voor de plaatselijke politie, totdat blijkt dat de vermoorde man een militair was en zijn vrouw connecties had met het Pentagon. De US Armys Criminal Investigative Division ACID zet zijn beste man op de zaak.

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May 05, 2013 Lee rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Not a bad story and I liked the main character but with a few problems. I'll possibly check out other works by this author with the same main character and see how he handles him in the other books. The main character is an all-American tough guy soldier but the story seems too PC at times. I had no problem with the character having a sensitive side (in fact to me that is a strength of the story) but the author had me wondering if in future stories he will have the main character eating quiche,...more

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Apr 26, 2013 Bames rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Zero Day by David Baldacci is an exciting read. The story is about a man named John Puller who is not only a combat veteran but is also a part of the US Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father and his brother have also been in the military -- his father is a veteran while his brother is in military prison for treason.

John has been called on to investigate the murder of a military veteran and his family in rural West Virginia. He teams up with local law enforcement to find out what ha...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Skye Taylor rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

John Puller, a combat veteran and military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division, is one of the best. His father was once an Army fighting legend who is fading into end life forgetfulness, but still manages to influence his son. John's his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison (I really want to know more about that and hope it will come in a future book.) John's love of and faithfulness to his family are endearing and create a wonde...more

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Dec 22, 2012 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was one which I ended up reading by pure chance. I knew nothing about it before hand and have never read any books featuring Jack Reacher, who many consider this to be a bit of a rip-off towards.

I thought I was reading a murder mystery book with a different kind of detective but as the book continued I realised I was reading more of an action book. I really liked John Puller, the army investigator that joins Sam Cole in leading the investigation. He is brilliant at virtually everythin...more

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Dec 15, 2012 Mark Chisnell rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’ve not read any David Baldacci books before, and I only started with this one because it sat at the top of the UK charts with a bunch of good reviews and a 20p price tag – but I’m glad I picked it out, and I’m giving it four stars. It would be three and a half, but that isn’t possible.

Zero Day is the first in what I’m sure will be a series starring Jack Rea... sorry, not Jack Reacher, John Puller. Spot what Baldacci did there? Many other reviewers have drawn the comparison between Lee Child’s...more I’ve not read any David Baldacci books before, and I only started with this one because it sat at the top of the UK charts with a bunch of good reviews and a 20p price tag – but I’m glad I picked it out, and I’m giving it four stars. It would be three and a half, but that isn’t possible.

Zero Day is the first in what I’m sure will be a series starring Jack Rea... sorry, not Jack Reacher, John Puller. Spot what Baldacci did there? Many other reviewers have drawn the comparison between Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and Baldacci’s Puller, and while there are only seven basic plots in story-telling and some overlap is inevitable, I’d still have to say that Baldacci’s Reacher is unnecessarily close to Child’s Puller. If you see what I mean.

The story begins with John Puller being assigned to investigate the murder of an entire family. Puller is Army CID, and he’s given the job because the father was in Defence Intelligence. The investigation unwinds slowly, and the book really gets going at about three quarters of the way through when we learn the reason for the murder. It was done to cover up multiple wrong-doings, and part of that is a very nasty terrorist attack that Puller must prevent once he’s figured out who the bad guys are.

The book’s writing style is a curious mix of spare with a tendency to being long-winded. The set pieces are economically described – a little bit too economical for my liking, it’s a bit slow in the slow parts, and never really fires up in the action.

This is not gritty realism, this is a CSI-style procedural detective story, with thriller action in the end game – also very much like a Jack Reacher book. So if you’re one of those people for whom Child’s one-a-year output is not enough, then this is right up your street.

Despite my reservations about the comparisons, I enjoyed this one and thought it was just about worth the four stars. It stretched my suspension of disbelief too much to stand any chance of getting the fifth star, and while I was always engaged with the story, it never came close to rising up and sweeping me away.

It was a perfectly good nuts and bolts thriller with, for the most part, tab b very effectively fitted into slot b. If you’re looking for paroxysms of excitement or enlightenment, this isn’t where you’ll find it, but it’s a more than pleasant diversion for a winter evening.(less)

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Dec 04, 2012 Dick rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, fiction, thriller, mystery

The only other book by Baldacci I have read was the Innocent which was also good. He writes a good thriller and develops his characters well. This book involves a CID investigator name John Puller. Baldacci created him eerily similar to another character in another author's work who was a former Army MP. The two men could almost be twins except that Puller has a tendency towards guns that the other doesn't tend towards. But this story was still good and well developed. It involves a series of mu...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Kevin Kirkpatrick rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love to read.

I read and read and read and read some more.

I don't know why. I suspect it is because when I graduated high school as a certified moron I decided I didn't really like being stupid. I've been reading almost non-stop since that day. I also like to collect books, which are quickly filling up my house and garage. I like looking at book shelves full of books. I'm weird that way. That may be one of the reasons I haven't yet joined the eBook revolution. I don't know if I could ever enjoy...more

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Oct 09, 2012 Alison rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book because the author did a terrific job at developing characters and describing scenes, locations and actions without getting boring. Army investigator John Puller is assigned to investigate the murders of four family members and can't figure out why a) he is the only one assigned, b) why someone from his unit was assigned, c) why it is considered an unusual murder and d) why he is getting no support from his superiors. Puller does, however, have the full support of the local p...more

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Oct 02, 2012 Emilie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, fiction, hard-copy, wvirginia

Picked this up at the airport on a whim. I typically like Baldacci's books and this one was ok. Other commenter's have remarked on the main character's uncanny similarity to another well-known character. I have never read any of those books (although now I'm going to!) to make that comparison, so that was lost on me. There is a lot of exposition and sort of dumbed-down/white-washed military/law enforcement stuff. I noted in the acknowledgements that Baldacci seemed to do quite a bit of research...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Relic rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It's not often I'm compelled to drop a book out of sheer despair, but this is one of them. Well, not literally, since it was in audio format on my phone, and dropping it would have had serious consequences. But at the 54 minute mark of the 57 minute second cd, enough was enough. At a crime scene, Baldacci's shameless clone of Jack Reacher, here called Puller, started explaining in relentless, unpitying and irrelevant detail how to take a flash photograph. This took several chapters, or seemed th...more It's not often I'm compelled to drop a book out of sheer despair, but this is one of them. Well, not literally, since it was in audio format on my phone, and dropping it would have had serious consequences. But at the 54 minute mark of the 57 minute second cd, enough was enough. At a crime scene, Baldacci's shameless clone of Jack Reacher, here called Puller, started explaining in relentless, unpitying and irrelevant detail how to take a flash photograph. This took several chapters, or seemed that way, and as far as I can guess--since I don't intend to read on--served no point whatever. (More stalwart readers can tell me if I'm wrong.)

This passage came not long after Puller abstractedly mused--as the local sheriff leveled a gun at him--that she had adopted the classic shooters stance pioneered by...who was it...Sgt So and So... in the 1950's...characterized by the legs this way...and the arms that way... and hands...one way or the other...and much more fascinating detail for ten or twenty pages. Since this was a completely gratuitous scene--not to mention that the sheriff was only about three feet away at the time,and unlikely to miss--this passage also seemed a trifle superfluous.

And let's not even get started on the shotgun pellets.

The whole book--sorry, the whole twenty percent I could bare--is like that. Relentless, senseless re-iteration of pointless trivia about anything and everything--for the sake of showing off, like a kid in school jamming as much cribbed information into his report as he can. Like Reacher's impressive physique and stone cold manner, Baldacci seems to have adopted his encyclopedic array of trivia as well for his own hero. But when Reacher riffs on a subject, it means something. With Baldacci's Puller, it's filler.

The other fine reviewers here have remarked with great detail and wit on the uncomfortable similarity of Puller to Reacher. For this reason alone the book has to be tossed into the 'what was he thinking!' pile. Surely Baldacci was not intending to write a 400 page tribute? Or parody?

Most books I read come to me in audio, and how the narrators interpret the characters do shape my impressions. Unfortunately Hachette audio chose to bring in a second reader to voice the female dialogue. Why some audiobook producers do that is a mystery. If it were a radio play, that would be one thing, but in the context of an audiobook the random intrusion of a completely different voice, obviously not recorded at the same time or place, is jarring and breaks up the flow, and here makes a bad situation worse.

It's very rare when I have to toss a book aside. I can get through the most amazing, convoluted, impossible-beyond-belief nonsense just to see how things turn out. But there's good nonsense, and bad. This, I'm afraid, is one of those.(less)

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May 21, 2012 VaultOfBooks rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

By David Baldacci. Grade B+
“Baldacci needs no introduction” said Daily Mail. Truer lines I haven’t heard.
David Baldacci introduces a new kind of thriller. Special Agent John Puller.
The new heart-racing thriller from the Number One International Bestselling Author John Puller is a former war hero and now the best military investigator in the U.S. Army s Criminal Investigative Division. He is a loner with few possessions by preference, but he has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable determinat...more By David Baldacci. Grade B+
“Baldacci needs no introduction” said Daily Mail. Truer lines I haven’t heard.
David Baldacci introduces a new kind of thriller. Special Agent John Puller.
The new heart-racing thriller from the Number One International Bestselling Author John Puller is a former war hero and now the best military investigator in the U.S. Army s Criminal Investigative Division. He is a loner with few possessions by preference, but he has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable determination for finding the truth. His father was the most decorated U.S. Marine in history, but now resides in a nursing home far from his battlefield glory. Puller s older brother, also a military vet, is serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate into the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor.
The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family s home. It is something that will turn an already complicated case on its head. As Puller digs through deception after red herring, he realizes that absolutely nothing, and nobody, he s so far seen in this small town, are what they seem. He is truly one man against an overwhelming force.

John Puller- a multiple combat veteran and now a military CID investigator- has been in his army his whole working life. His father had been a three-star commander. His elder brother Robert Puller had also worked in the army. So when a a series of murders (four people) take place in West Virginia, one of which involves the Defense Intelligence High Ranking Colonel, Puller is called to investigate.
The murder doesn’t make sense but involves a huge number of dead bodies. He teams up with the local Detective – Sargeant Samantha Cole who he thinks is quite efficient in her work.
Sam Cole has an equally challenging life. Her parents died because of her brother-in-law who also happens to be the most hated man in the country. To top it all, her brother is making death threats to him and is drowning himself in alcohol.
When the death rate of the county (which has seen no murders in the last three years) turn to seven in a month and still continues, she is keen to find out the killer.
I loved John Puller’s character. An Army CID? This is the first time I have heard about it. The book also has the Baldacci subtle humor in it and an undercurrent romance between the two main characters.
I also liked the theme of the book which revolved around Coal Mining. I expected it to be a recurrence of what he did in Wish You Well, but true to form, he keeps the topic just as fresh.
Since it’s David Baldacci, the book has to be good. However, despite that, I think that the book didn’t hold the same level of thrill as in his other books. This book just didn’t match up to the other books. Maybe it was too technical for me to understand the Army language and acronyms. The protagonist is military and a lot of acronyms are used that I don’t know. They are defined but I didn’t want to keep looking back in the book to be reminded. So, I couldn’t get into the book completely. There was no nail biting, no swearing at the characters as they tried to avoid being killed…nope, nothing.
I was also disappointed by the way the mystery was unraveled.
Despite the low thrill, I am eagerly looking forward to the second part of the series. I’m hoping for a better conclusion to the romance next time.
***SPOILERS ALERT***
I am terribly sad that there was nothing between Sam and Puller (caution, this is my romantic side speaking). I am still deeply wounded by Sam’s death, though I think that the book got an edge because of it.
***SPOILERS END***

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May 14, 2012 Katherine Adams rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've read several of David Baldacci's books, and enjoyed them. "Zero Day," however, isn't one of them. Baldacci's main character -- Army investigator John Puller -- is a dull twin of Lee Child's popular protagonist Jack Reacher. It was surprising to see so many similarities to such a well-known character like Reacher. The first time Puller craved coffee, I thought "Reacher." Aside from a strange (I hope coincidental) similarity to a well-known contemporary character, this book is filled with unn...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Ben Jackson rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

And just when I thought I had finished the Jack Reacher series, ~~Lee Child~~er...David Baldacci writes ~~another Reacher~~ the first Puller novel.

~~Jack Reacher~~ John Puller is a crackerjack military investigator, who heads out of the DC area to the south, to check out the death of a senior officer in unsavory conditions. ~~Reacher~~ sorries, Puller is a big dude, and he likes to punch people. Also he travels light. And punchy.

~~Jack Reacher~~John Puller comes from a military family. His father ~~died~~ now has Alzh...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Jill rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have never read a book by David Baldacci that I didn't like, and Zero Day is no exception. It kept me awake nights and that is one of the things that determine how well I like a book. The situations were borderline unbelievable, but then so are most of Dean Koontz, Stephen King and others ... it doesn't detract from the pleasure of the book.

John Puller is a career military man, a CID investigator with a tough exterior and soft heart and soul. His brother is serving a life sentence for treason...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Arthur rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An Army Colonel and his family are murdered in their home in a small West Virginia mining town. Army detective Sergeant Puller is sent to investigate. Puller, a distinguished soldier with a chest-full of medals has chosen to stay a sergeant, has a brother in jail for treason, a famous Army general (and now senile) father, and not much of a personal life other than the Army.

The town is being blown apart by mountain-top-removal coal mining and poverty. There's a female police sergeant who becomes...more

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Dec 24, 2011 Kevin Allmaras rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I would really rate David Baldacci's latest thriller 31/2 stars. He introduces us to a new lead character John Puller a multiple combat veteran and now a military investigator. John gets assigned to a multiple murder scene in rural West Virginia that involved a murder of a DIA analyst. He is confused as to why he gets a total lack of resources and help. Is this a murder of a DIA office or something else? When he hooks up with the local police officer in charge a woman named Samantha Cole things...more

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Nov 26, 2011 Nancy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really like David Baldacci's books. He is intelligent and provides a suspense filled story with clean dialogue and well written characters. This particular book just didn't grab me. The problem was the acronyms for me. The protagonist is military and a lot of acronyms are used that I don't know. They are defined but I didn't want to keep looking back in the book to be reminded. Like I said, Baldacci is brilliant and he understands a lot of things that I don't having to do with forensics which...more

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Nov 22, 2011 Bill rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Those that really need to read every Baldacci book

The good guy is perfect and the bad guys are really, really evil. Sometimes David Baldacci gets it just right and sometimes he just falls flat. I am putting Zero Day in the latter category.

John Puller is in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division and is called upon to investigate a murder in a small West Virginia coal mining town. While there, he learns these deaths may have very large implications.

The story really falls short in a number of ways. First, the sheer size and scope of the invest...more

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Nov 18, 2011 Alla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In “Zero Hour” David Baldacci introduces Army CID (Criminal Investigation Division) investigator John Puller, who is tasked with solving the murder of Colonel Matthew Reynolds, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency and stationed in the Pentagon, who is murdered in a small house in West Virginia—along with his wife and two teenage kids. Puller is partnered with the local detective, Samantha Cole, as they work to uncover the secrets held in the small West Virginia town—and face a second m...more In “Zero Hour” David Baldacci introduces Army CID (Criminal Investigation Division) investigator John Puller, who is tasked with solving the murder of Colonel Matthew Reynolds, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency and stationed in the Pentagon, who is murdered in a small house in West Virginia—along with his wife and two teenage kids. Puller is partnered with the local detective, Samantha Cole, as they work to uncover the secrets held in the small West Virginia town—and face a second murder.

The most interesting part about this story was just the mystery, but the characters. Drake, West Virginia (the town where the action of this story takes place) is full of them. There’s Roger Trent, the town millionaire who owns the only big business in the area, and holds a couple of secrets of his own. There’s Bill Strauss, Trent’s number two, who appears to be playing a game of his own. His son Dickie appears not much more trustworthy himself. There’s Jean Trent, Roger’s gold digging wife, who knows their financial security is not what it seems. There’s Larry Wellman, a murdered cop who saw too much. There’s Howard Reed, the mailman who discovered Reynold’s murdered family. Then there’s Molly Bitner, one of the victims circulating in Puller’s mind, a secretary who worked for Trent, and had a meth lab in her basement—along with her friend Eric Treadwell.

The mystery itself is organized in a complicated way--with plenty of puzzle pieces, plot changes, and action. While John Puller may at first seem like a stereotypical lead, the back story Baldacci develops for him (war hero father, John’s namesake and past war hero who had lost his wits, and his brother Robert, sentenced to life in jail for treason) gives him some depth and makes him a sympathetic character. The one thing that stood out to me the most, though, was the amount of research put into his book. With the amount of information incorporated into the story, you aren’t just reading about Puller—you’re basically living his military life. Overall, a well-researched, sophisticated, mystery. (less)

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Nov 17, 2011 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

So, I was needing "good read" and I got it with this one. Mr. Baldacci remains one of my favorite authors. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this (probably more than usual because I had just finished a rather disappointing novel from another of my favorites, who maybe won't be one of my favorites any more...but I digress).

One nit-picky complaint: I got a bit weary of reading about how someone was fat. Too many fat someones.

That said, the hero of this one was "larger than life", a nearly perfect exam...more

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Nov 14, 2011 William Bentrim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Zero Day by David Baldacci

Baldacci has a new hero, a new ethos and another, never boring cliff hanging, throat grabbing thriller.

John Puller takes over for John Carr without a Camel Club or a gang of cronies. Although Puller is dedicated Army, he runs without a safety net throughout the book. The Army is his life and his passion is it’s Criminal Investigative Division. He is an elite Army cop and he is thrown into a situation involving mass mayhem. Every time he turns around there is another mu...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Nick Brett rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

oh, what to make of David Baldacci? A capable and entertaining author, much of his recent work has not been up to the standard set by his early books. My personal view is that this came about as he started producing books on a more regular basis, quantity over quality if you like. And now we have "Zero Hour" which is a very hard book to review...
The good news is that this is the best book from the author in some while, a fast paced page turner about an US Military investigator looking into some...more

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Dec 03, 2012 Spinster rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: do-not-bother

Zero Day was like bad action movie, so clichéd that my fingers and toes combined aren't enough to count the times I rolled my eyes or laughed at the absurdities in the story. I mean, a hardass super soldier who knows everything about anything and if there is one very precise area of knowledge he's not an expert on, he has a family member that is. Murders, guns, explosions, sweat and muscle - that's the recipe for a good story. Or not.

The book reeked with testosterone and Baldacci clearly wasn't...more

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Sep 28, 2012 Jimmy rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 28, deployment-12-13

SPOILERS INCLUDED!

Reading this book made me feel elitest and I don't enjoy that feeling. The story wasn't bad by any means. I wanted to know how it ended but getting there was pretty rough.

So the main character is John Puller Jr. Puller is an Army CID Investigator who is the son of America's greatest Soldier and is no slouch himself. Unfortunately for Mr. Baldacci, I am also a Soldier and I found the description of Puller to be almost offensive. He does everything the way the Army trained him to...more

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Oct 21, 2012 John Lee rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A recommendation from my wife and a chance to try out the Kindle app on my new tablet. Although our tastes in reading are not the same, there are some overlaps and there are many books in her archive that will keep me going for some time yet.

I think that this is my first read by this popular author who would not be my immediate choice. There is no arguing however, with the pace of the book which grabs you in the first few pages - the small town killings.
The story moves quickly and I enjoyed John...more

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Dec 01, 2011 Mekerei rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

David Baldacci

Baldacci is on my list of "to-read" authors when he has a new book out. He did nor disappoint this time. The past few books have been good, but I was disappointed as I did not believe that they up in the same league as "The Winner"

(Still my favourite by Baldacci).

Baldacci has a new hero, John Pullar. He has similarities to Jack Reacher (ie military with military issues, a big man who can look after himself, no partner and not apt socially - strong silent type) but is not a Rea...more

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Dec 06, 2011 Bill rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Puller meet Reacher! David Baldacci brings a new character into his stable of heroes ,John Puller, a war hero who is now one the best military investigators in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. Puller follows orders but is clearly his own man when an investigation starts. In Zero Day Puller is sent to investigate the murder of an intellegence officer down South--and, in an highly unusual move, is directed to investigate on his own. Lots of mystery surrounds the deaths of an entire...more

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Nov 09, 2011 Connie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ZERO DAY by David Baldacci is 13 hrs and 8 minutes long in MP3 format. This was narrated by Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy.

Brief Description:

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...more ZERO DAY by David Baldacci is 13 hrs and 8 minutes long in MP3 format. This was narrated by Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy.

Brief Description:

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.

I loved this book from the first minute. The sound effects on this one is like a regular production. There are gunshots, bomb blasts and music that make the suspense even more intense. Mr. McLarty and Ms. Cassidy do a fantastic job in my opinion for the characters in the book.

John Puller does remind me a lot of Jack Reacher that was created by Lee Child. I am hoping that this is just the first in a series because I didn't see an end on this one. I mean I saw an end to this story, but could see others that could be found. John could be given another assignment and be off on another job in the near future and I am sure I will be getting that one as fast as I can.

Mr. Baldacci never disappoints me in his writing. I think I have read everything by this author and I give him 4 or 5 stars all the time. This one is definitely a 5 out of 5 star book. Especially if you like action and detecting. A couple of explosions and some real serious mayhem.

This MP3 download is available through Audible.
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Feb 06, 2013 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book gets the 5 star status because it passed the "driveway test." Meaning I was listening to this book in my car and would get so captured by the story I would park the car in the driveway and listen to the book.
I can't wait for more books in the Puller series!
It was a very well written story and captivating from chapter 1 all the way to chapter 97! I couldn't believe all the twists and turns this book provided. It kept going all the way to the end.
I loved Puller's character! He was suc...more

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