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McCarten, Anthony, 1961-

Going zero / Going 0 Anthony McCarten. - London : Macmillan, 2023. - 295 pages ; 24 cm.

From four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten comes a breakneck, wickedly entertaining thriller for our times, a twisty, action-packed novel reminiscent of the best Michael Crichton technothrillers, in which a woman must find a way to elude the most powerful forces of government and high tech. Ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test a ground-breaking piece of spyware. Pioneered by tech-wunderkind Cy Baxter in collaboration with the CIA, FUSION can track anyone on earth. But does it work? Each participant is given two hours to 'Go Zero' -- to go off-grid and disappear - and then thirty days to elude the highly sophisticated Capture Teams sent to find them. Any Zero that beats FUSION will receive $3 million. If Cy's system prevails, he wins a $90 billion-dollar government contract to revolutionize surveillance forever. For one contestant, an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day, the stakes are far higher than money, and her reasons for entering the test more personal than anyone imagines. Kaitlyn needs to win as badly as Cy needs to realise his own ambitions. They have no choice but to finish the game and when the timer hits zero, there will only be one winner...

ISBN: 9781529090222 (paperback) 1529090229 (paperback)

LCCN: jb2023016042

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Contests--Fiction.
Women librarians--Fiction.
Electronic surveillance--Fiction.
Surveillance detection--Fiction.
Spyware (Computer software)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Thrillers (Fiction).
Action and adventure fiction.