Cold Zero

Cold Zero

Reviews


“Nail-bitingly intense… jolts you stronger than a double shot of caffeine”

Kashif Hussain, The Best Thriller Books

"Brad Thor and Ward Larsen have crafted the perfect thriller, one that feels both terrifyingly plausible and utterly unputdownable. Think Red Storm Rising colliding with The Day After Tomorrow—then cranked to eleven”

The Real Book Spy

"Thor and Larsen serve up high-caliber suspense that keeps the pages flying"

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Exciting, entertaining, heart-pounding, cold-blooded”

Steve Netter, Best Thriller Books

“Like a combination of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, ICE STATION ZEBRA, and Jack London’s TO BUILD A FIRE”

F.X. Reagan

"[A] fantastic political spy thriller. The suspense is palpable, and the icy North Pole scenes are so immersive that they should come with a blanket"

Library Journal (starred review)

"[A]n exciting, suspenseful story that will keep readers glued to their chairs"

Booklist

"A sizzling, scintillating page-turner."

Jon Land, BookTrib

"I was blown away by the book. I could not get through it fast enough."

Guy Benson, FOX News Radio

"COLD ZERO literally will chill readers with its dangerous premise and subsequently will light a fire inside as the suspense burns brightly from start to finish in this perilous read."

Bookreporter

"This new spy thriller is unexpectedly timely"

New York Post

Meet the Authors

Brad Thor

Brad Thor

Brad Thor is the #1 NYT bestselling author of 25 novels and has been called the Master of Thrillers. Renowned for blending real-world scenarios with gripping fiction, Brad has served as a member of the DHS Analytic Red Cell Unit, embedded with a Black Ops team in Afghanistan, and has lectured to law enforcement organizations on over-the-horizon/future threats.

Ward Larsen

Ward Larsen

Ward Larsen is a USA Today bestselling author and decorated Air Force veteran. An eight-time Florida Book Award winner, his thriller The Perfect Assassin has been optioned for film. Larsen brings real-world experience as a fighter pilot, federal agent, airline captain, and aircraft crash investigator to his high-stakes fiction.

The Story

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor and USA TODAY bestselling author Ward Larsen, comes a heart-pounding thriller of survival, espionage, and global brinkmanship, where the frozen Arctic becomes the deadliest battlefield on Earth.

A vanished plane. An earth-shattering secret. A countdown to World War III.

Hemisphere Airlines Flight 777—the most advanced jetliner ever built—disappears without a trace over the North Pole. Crippled by sabotage, it crash-lands on the ice, stranding the surviving passengers in a wasteland of frigid cold and chaos.

The real storm, however, is still coming.

Hidden inside the wreckage is the prototype for a revolutionary piece of technology that could upend the balance of world power. Now Washington, Moscow, and Beijing are racing to be the first on scene to retrieve it—at any cost.

Trapped in the middle of the world’s most dangerous flashpoint are CIA operative Kasey Sheridan and former fighter pilot turned first officer, Brett Sharpe. Hunted by enemy forces, they must spirit both the device and its creator across the ice to safety—before rival superpowers turn the Arctic into a war zone.

With the clock ticking and the temperature dropping, the fate of the free world is about to be decided at the top of the globe.

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Chapter Excerpt

The little car hit a speed bump and hurtled through the air like a shoulder-fired missile. Landing in a spray of glass and broken plastic, it shattered a motor mount and kept going. Two blocks later, as it took flight and slammed back to earth once more, its bent frame groaned like a stabbing victim. Despite all of its damage, the autonomous taxi continued at breakneck speed.

Screaming down the precipitous incline of Hong Kong’s Central District, the wind tore at its flimsy shell. As its tires clawed for purchase on the slick asphalt, they unfurled tendrils of hot smoke. Trailing behind, three police cruisers slalomed wildly through the early morning traffic, struggling to keep up.

Horns blared. Klaxons wailed. Wide-eyed pedestrians scattered for cover like startled birds. The madness was only two minutes old, yet the radios crackled with urgency as patrol cars swarmed in from every direction.

With a roar from its engine, an unmarked sedan lurched into the fray, closing the gap quickly with the rogue taxi. Riding shotgun, Captain Ronny Tang of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS for short, wished he had eaten a milder breakfast. The mi xian was twice as spicy coming up as it had been going down.

Using one hand to brace himself against the dashboard, he used his other to work the radio and bark commands. Everything was unraveling.

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