Zero Days - Ruth Ware

Thriller

Rating: 8/10

Zero Day Exploit: A way to hack into a device that hasn’t yet been found or fixed. One that the software developer doesn’t know about, thereby leaving them with zero days to fix it.

It would be hard to dispute that Ware has a knack for writing propulsive plots and casting them with female protagonists that you will root for. And her latest does not disappoint, especially when you layer on the technological angle to the story.

Jack and her husband are penetration specialists, people who find ways around company security systems. After their latest job, she gets home to find her beloved husband brutally murdered. Jack doesn’t think twice about fully cooperating with the police, but when it looks like someone is setting her up to be suspect number one, she isn’t waiting around to get arrested. She is going to elude them as long as possible and find the real killer.

Readers will need to be prepared to follow Jack through some epic lapses of common sense and her implausible aptitude for wheedling her way into places she doesn’t belong. But hang in there, it will all be worth it!

Think the movie The Fugitive, but with a woman and in book form!

Book Pairing(s): Bandwidth by Eliot Peper, Dark Swans by Stephen Jackson, Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware