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Citizen Zero
by Mark Cantrell   

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Kindle Edition

Category:  Science Fiction
Publisher: Inspired Quill

ISBN-10:  1908600523

Type: Fiction

Pages: 464

Copyright: 
August 22, 2017
ISBN-13: 9781908600523

Price: $4.55 (eBook)


JobNet was supposed to usher in a better life for unemployed David Mills; instead it plunges him into a bitter struggle for survival when he is caught in the midst of a political conspiracy that pushes Britain to the brink of civil war…

“Those people are no-hopers.”

“And what does that make me?”

In a bitterly divided nation where security trumps civil liberty, unemployed David is on the verge of sinking into the ‘Zeros’ – a destitute underclass numbering millions. But then JobNet's advanced virtual reality world offers him a gateway to a worthwhile future, and a chance to rejoin society.

But David is an unwitting pawn in a deadly conspiracy to topple the Government: he's the ideal carrier for an intelligent virus designed to shatter the system and set the Zeros free.

When the virus activates, chaos ensues and the Zeros rise. David is left trapped inside a corrupted reality. If it doesn't shatter his sanity, the secret he finds there will change everything...

Sometimes even a pawn can hold the balance of power.



Excerpt

A gunship rose sluggishly. Its engines whined with the struggle to overcome the burden of clinging bodies. Guns barked. Zeros fell, only to be replaced by more. Finally the gunship toppled over. Blades shattered as they struck the ground. The fuselage crumpled. The fuel tank ruptured.

The explosion thumped into his chest like an invisible fist. The mechanical carcass burned with a stinging heat, even from that distance. He began to tremble. The zeros swarmed towards him. The last gunship took off and hovered to provide support.

“They can’t do this,” he said in shock. “They’re zeros... they can’t do this to us...”

Nobody paid any attention. Chief cradled the PM in his arms; his face screwed up with genuine anguish. The PM moaned, isolated from the world around him.


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