Dangerous Zeros

Dangerous Zeros
Title Dangerous Zeros PDF eBook
Author John Marshall Mills
Publisher AuthorHouse
Pages 361
Release 2012
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1477238778

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"Dangerous Zeros" (published by AuthorHouse) by John Marshall Mills is described by Blue Ink Review as a shrewd financial thriller involving myriad characters and intertwining plots that pits its main character against the forces of an abysmally corrupt financial world that holds zeros in a higher regard than the people it fleeces...’ ‘Gripping narrative’... ‘a compelling work of prose.’ In their obsessive focus on zeros, cynical bankers and politicians threaten the world’s financial systems with meltdown. This ‘knife at the throat’ is ignored by the story’s main character Jamie Gulliver, brilliantly numerate heir to his father’s high-end private bank, until Lehmann Brothers and the banking crash destroy his fortune and his future. Reluctantly, he is forced to do business with the feared founder of a shadowy international mega-business, and is sucked into a web of money-laundering, narcotics and deaths. He fights back. Mentally aided by an unlikely alter ego whose cryptic advice helps him to hang onto his sanity, he claws his way out of the pit on a journey life-changing for everyone who travels with him. When asked about the appeal of his book, Mills explains: “….the contemporary theme reflects concerns and experiences of many people facing the frightening erosion of their money, property and social values. In today’s financial world, who can you trust?” “...In Mills’ fast-paced novel, the number of zeros in your bank account dictates your popularity, but those zeros also attract the criminal element.” (Kirkus Reviews) “Mills draws drama from mistakes, missteps, and misadventures of the ‘masters of the universe’ who created the economic meltdown...” (Clarion Review)

Zero

Zero
Title Zero PDF eBook
Author Charles Seife
Publisher Souvenir Press
Pages 253
Release 2019-11-28
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1782837329

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity. Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.

Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini

Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini
Title Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini PDF eBook
Author Betsy Uhrig
Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages 304
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1534467653

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A young boy attempts to transform his aunt’s boring children’s book into an exciting one in this funny, fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of the Book Scavenger series! Books aren’t supposed to be dangerous. Are they? Alex Harmon prefers running over sitting still reading. But when his aunt offers to pay him to point out the boring parts in her children’s book, he figures it’s an easy way to make ten bucks. The problem is that her book is about a grumpy frog and a prize-winning zucchini. It doesn’t have only a few boring pages…the whole thing is a lost cause. Alex gives his aunt some ideas to help her out—like adding danger and suspense. But books can’t just be interesting. They also have to be believable. Soon Alex recruits his friends to help him act out scenes so he can describe all the important details. He’s even getting plot twists from a mysterious stranger (who might also be a ghost). Too late, Alex discovers that being a real-life stunt double for a fictional character can land you in terrible trouble—even if your friends are laughing their heads off!

Zero Dial

Zero Dial
Title Zero Dial PDF eBook
Author J. Dey
Publisher Jaico Publishing House
Pages 198
Release 2013-12-23
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 818495428X

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Three informers. Murky bylanes that hold the key to deadly terror plots. The chase for India’s most wanted terrorist. The lives of three of Mumbai Police’s best informers collide in this shady underworld. It’s a bad, bad world. A world of crime, sex, drugs, murder and betrayal. He who lies, lives to see the light of another day... a day replete with even greater risks. From shady underworld dealings to switching gang loyalties, the men graduate to selling information on terrorism. Then begins the chase… to catch India’s most wanted terrorist: Riyaz Bhatkal, the man with an ominous track record of masterminding twentytwo blasts across the country since 2005. The search takes them to the most unassuming yet dangerous terror hubs across India. With trust in short supply, time ticking away and the sword of Damocles over their heads, the men can only hope that they are not on a wild goose chase.

Swarm

Swarm
Title Swarm PDF eBook
Author Scott Westerfeld
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 464
Release 2016-09-27
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1481443399

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As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.

Nothing

Nothing
Title Nothing PDF eBook
Author New Scientist
Publisher John Murray
Pages 230
Release 2016-09-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1473642698

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Zero, zip, nada, zilch. It's all too easy to ignore the fascinating possibilities of emptiness and non-existence, and we may well wonder what there is to say about nothing. But scientists have known for centuries that nothing is the key to understanding absolutely everything, from why particles have mass to the expansion of the universe; without nothing we'd be precisely nowhere. With chapters by 22 science writers, including top names such as Ian Stewart, Marcus Chown, Helen Pilcher, Nigel Henbest, Michael Brooks, Linda Geddes, Paul Davies, Jo Marchant and David Fisher, this fascinating and intriguing book revels in a subject that has tantalised the finest minds for centuries, and shows there's more to nothing than meets the eye.

Zero Footprint

Zero Footprint
Title Zero Footprint PDF eBook
Author Simon Chase
Publisher Hachette UK
Pages 273
Release 2016-02-10
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0751564710

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Simon Chase's life is a maze of burner phones, encrypted emails, secret meetings, and weaponry - all devoted to executing missions too sensitive for government acknowledgement. Working for shadowy British and American organisations, Chase has been on the trail of Bin Laden in Afghanistan, protected allied generals in Iraq, and been part of an operation directly related to the attack in 2012 on the US consulate in Benghazi. Zero Footprint takes us to this dangerous and thrilling world, and tells the true story of a private military contractor whose work forms the foundation for western security abroad, especially when the UK and US military, intelligence agencies, and departments of state need something done that they can't - or won't - do themselves.