The Story: Zero World takes its time in getting to the action. She doesn’t count on Peter being there to mess things up and has to adjust quickly, quicker than she’s normally comfortable with and in doing so finds herself a partner of sorts.

There’ll only be the one chance, and she jumps when it appears.

Melni Tavan was always one to blend in, carefully biding her time as she looked for her big break. But how successful will he be, especially when “they” can reset his memory? (Note to self: It’s not a good idea to give anyone that much access into your brain. And when he figures out who’s been pulling his strings all along – and why – Peter decides to do something about it. He’s not your typical hero – he does kill for a living after all – but he does have a moral compass of sorts. The Characters: Peter Caswell is a top-secret asset, one whose best quality is his willingness to forget what he’s done while on assignment. Drama and action overload ensues, liberally sprinkled with twists and turns, as assassin and spy try to stay alive. Undercover agent attempts to find secret behind enemy’s light-years-ahead technology, gets caught up in an assassination attempt, and learns mind-blowing truth. The Plot: Assassin finds out mind-blowing truth while on the job, gets an unexpected ally, and then forgets it all. But he’s unprepared for what awaits on the planet’s surface, where his skills will be put to the ultimate test-and everything he knows about the universe will be challenged in ways he never could have imagined.Purchase at IndieBound | Amazon | The Book Depository | Barnes & Noble Cut off from all support, and with only days to complete his operation, Peter must track his quarry alone on an alien world. Peter discovers that this mirrored world is indeed different from his home, and far more dangerous. Beyond this mysterious doorway lies an even more confounding reality: a world that seems to be Earth’s twin. Peter’s mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through what appears to be a tear in the fabric of space.

A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew-save one. Technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell has been dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he’s ever faced. Now Hough returns with a riveting near-future spy thriller that combines the adrenaline of a high-octane James Bond adventure with mind-blowing sci-fi speculations worthy of Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Hough’s first three novels, The Darwin Elevator, The Exodus Towers, and The Plague Forge, earned mountains of praise and comparisons to such authors as James S.

Zero World by Jason M. Hough