Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Dead Zero
    Dead Zero
    Dead Zero
    Audiobook (abridged)5 hours

    Dead Zero

    Written by Stephen Hunter

    Narrated by Buck Schirner

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that pits former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger against the only man who might be able to outshoot him.

    A marine sniper team on a mission in tribal territories on the Afghan-Pakistan border, Whiskey 2-2 is ambushed by professionals using the latest high-tech shooting gear. Badly wounded, the team's sole survivor, Gunnery Sergeant Ray Cruz, aka "the Cruise Missile," is determined to finish his job. He almost succeeds when a mystery blast terminates his enterprise, leaving a thirty-foot crater where a building used to be—and where Sergeant Cruz was meant to be hiding.

    Months pass. Ray's target, an Afghan warlord named Ibrahim Zarzi, sometimes called "The Beheader," becomes an American asset in the region and beyond, beloved by State, the Administration, and the Agency. He arrives in Washington for consecration as Our Man in Kabul.

    And that brings Ray Cruz out of hiding.

    Swagger, the legendary hero of seven of Hunter's novels from Point of Impact to last year's bestselling I, Sniper, is recruited by the FBI to stop the Cruise Missile from reaching his target. The problem is that the more Swagger learns about what happened in Zabol, the more he questions the US government's support of Zarzi and the more he identifies with Cruz as hunter instead of prey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 28, 2010
    ISBN9781441894007
    Dead Zero
    Author

    Stephen Hunter

    Stephen Hunter has written over twenty novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work, American Gunfight. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

    More audiobooks from Stephen Hunter

    Related to Dead Zero

    Titles in the series (12)

    View More
    View More

    Related audiobooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 1, 2023

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Kingsley Ben-Adir Is Playing Two American Icons. Back In The U.K., 'There Is No Work'

      Sep 4, 2020

      Once Kingsley Ben-Adir finished filming his scenes in "The Comey Rule" - Showtime's two-parter based on former FBI Director James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty," which premieres Sept. 27 - the classically trained, 33-year-old actor flew back to New

      7 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Oct 13, 2021

      If you know anyone planning a career in journalism, make sure they read Millar’s warts-and-all reveal. Since August 2019 she’s been co-presenter with Michael Rowland on ABC News Breakfast. It’s a chance to sit down after 10 years in Washington and th

      5 min read

    • Article

      Thuso Mbedu

      Mar 26, 2021

      Thuso Mbedu
      8 min read

    • Article

      Robbie Burns

      Nov 6, 2019

      Robbie Burns
      2 min read

    • Article

      Another Year From Hell

      Jan 16, 2021

      Another Year From Hell
      4 min read

    • Article

      Another Year From Hell

      Jan 16, 2021

      THE year 1986 was a pivotal one in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace – but also the year the talking began. Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and little-known histories, William Dicey presents a c

      4 min read

    • Article

      Pecking Orders

      Mar 4, 2024

      Writing fiction involves a search for data. The constant vigilance, the scanning for information, can lead to a sense of synchronicity. When the universe keeps coming up with new connections, the writer can feel positively prescient. On a hot morning

      2 min read

    • Article

      1986 – Another Year From Hell

      Jan 16, 2021

      1986 – Another Year From Hell
      4 min read

    • Article

      Calm Under Fire

      Sep 25, 2022

      Calm Under Fire
      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘I Promised Brando I Would Not Touch His Oscar’: The Secret Life Of Sacheen Littlefeather

      Jun 3, 2021

      Sacheen Littlefeather begins by announcing that this will be one of her last interviews: “I’m very, very ill. I have metastasised breast cancer – terminal – to my right lung. And I’ve been on chemotherapy for quite some time, and daily antibiotics. A

      8 min read

    • Article

      The joy of Gina

      Jul 30, 2021

      The joy of Gina
      9 min read

    • Article

      CHILL Out

      Sep 30, 2022

      CHILL Out
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘They Put Me On A Ship And Took Me Into The Sun’: The Wild UFO Podcasts Taking Over Our Earphones

      Apr 7, 2023

      In the depths of winter last year, I was running through a cold and unlit field near my house when I saw a trail of lights moving through the sky. I stopped. The air caught in my throat. “Bloody hell,” I thought, “were the UFO people right all along?

      6 min read

    • Article

      TV & REVIEWS

      Aug 24, 2021

      TV & REVIEWS
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Apr 21, 2022

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS As an FT reader and occasional correspondent of some 30 odd years, I enjoy the magazine as much as ever, but I did un

      11 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jun 18, 2020

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Sense Of Mischief

      Nov 20, 2023

      A Sense Of Mischief
      4 min read

    • Article

      His Brilliant Career

      Mar 19, 2023

      His Brilliant Career
      9 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Dead Zero

    3.5/5

    100 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      I love the bob lee swagger series and while this one was good its was thinner than normal on the sniping and a bit to close close to point of impact.
    • 3/5
      Substance: Enjoyed the action; good characterization; not for the faint of heart. Foul language on par for the genre and the characters. What looked like far-fetched conspiracy fiction in 2010 seems much more plausible now (after the revelations about Benghazi, Fast & Furious, NSA whistleblowers, and IRS partisan chicanery).Style: guilty of back-stitching, but otherwise okay. Retrospectively (after reading the jacket bio), it does read like a book by a film critic, but I was surprised the author was not former military - good research team?
    • 4/5
      I found a pretty good story line with believable characters, though the ending, as has been mentioned before, was pretty weak. All in all it was a good read that I felt could have been better.
    • 3/5
      I think the basic story line was really good but the dialogue! Ugh! When all the gold 'ole boys get together, the dialogue between them is so corny! Do men really talk to each other that way? I don't think so. And yes, we understand what a great guy Bob Lee is and how he's a hero. But do we have to hear about it on practically every page? May never read another Swagger novel. This isn't the first time I've noticed the dialogue, but it may be the last.
    • 4/5
      Good story line and characters...weak ending with the Hellfire missile hitting the Rose Garden and only 6 people getting killed.