REVIEW: Zer0es by Chuck Wendig
Zer0es by Chuck Wendig Publishing information: Hardback; 432 pages Publisher: Harper Voyager; 18 August 2015 ISBN: 978-0062351555 Series: Zer0es #1 Copy: Provided by publisher Reviewer: Tyson Amazon Synopsis: "An exhilarating thrill-ride through the underbelly of cyber espionage in the vein of David Ignatius’s The Director and the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest, which follows five iconoclastic hackers who are coerced into serving the U.S. government. An Anonymous-style rabble rouser, an Arab spring hactivist, a black-hat hacker, an old-school cipherpunk, and an online troll are each offered a choice: go to prison or help protect the United States, putting their brains and skills to work for the government for one year. But being a white-hat doesn’t always mean you work for the good guys. The would-be cyberspies discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program, an artificial intelligence code-named Typhon, that has origins and an evolutio...