A modern city can feed itself for nine days. No more. And when the panic starts… In the pulse-pounding thriller Zero Day Code 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. 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. 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. Not since Stephen King's monumental epic 'The Stand' 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.Praise for John Birmingham's books."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." James Rollins, author of The Doomsday Key. "Bucketloads of action." Sunday Mail. "Frenetic action viewed in a black fun-house mirror." Kirkus Reviews. "Insanely clever." Wired.
Author
John Birmingham grew up in Ipswich, Queensland and was educated at St Edmunds Christian Brother's College in Ipswich and the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His only stint of full time employment was as a researcher at the Defence Department. After this he returned to Queensland to study law but he did not complete his legal studies, choosing instead to pursue a career as a writer. He currently lives in Brisbane. While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon. Birmingham has a degree in international relations.
