Zero Day Code

<p><em><strong>A modern city can feed itself for nine days. No more. And when the panic starts...</strong></em></p><p>In the pulse-pounding thriller <em>Zero Day Code</em> by best-selling author John Birmingham civilization unravels at a keystroke. Chinese cyber strikes pierce the heart of the free world-no food no water no power. America starves and darkness descends igniting a global cataclysm.</p><p>From the chaos a small band of survivors emerges. James O'Donnell a shrewd farm boy turned market analyst unearths the truth behind the digital Pearl Harbor. Michele Nguyen enigmatic agent of the Deep State carves a path out of a crippled capital. And Jodie Sarjanen a fierce single mother navigates the ruins of San Francisco.</p><p>As society reaches breaking point unlikely heroes brave a treacherous world of newfound friends and ruthless enemies like Jonas Murdoch a charismatic firebrand who leads the dangerous Legion of Freedom.</p><p>Not since Stephen King's monumental epic <em>'The Stand'</em> has a novelist worked on such a grand scale where the end of days is just the beginning-when every choice could be your last and the battle for tomorrow is waged today.<br> </p><p><strong>Praise for John Birmingham's books.</strong></p><p>Brilliant... a tour de force... John Birmingham's ability to seamlessly merge the gritty realism of Tom Clancy with the raw speculation of Michael Crichton is like nothing else I've ever read. <strong>James Rollins</strong> author of <em>The Doomsday Key</em>.</p><p>Bucketloads of action. <em>Sunday Mail.</em></p><p>Frenetic action viewed in a black fun-house mirror. <em>Kirkus Reviews.</em></p><p>Insanely clever. <em>Wired</em>.</p><p>Birmingham's inspired speculation is ingenious and engrossing. <em>Publishers Weekly.</em></p>