Code to Zero

Perhaps being an ex-book fanatic (now I hardly read novels!) the want of taking up a bulky book and drowning in it becomes ineluctable, sometimes. Thanks to some definite page turners, thriller seekers like me get a day off from sitting in front of the idiot box or planning about the project or worrying about timelines! A Suspense and thrill filled, fast paced book could simply not be put down, until you know who the bad guy (OK - sometimes bad gal) is!

Code to zero is infact a thriller where the bad guy is known from the very beginning. So how come it's a thriller? I can hear you screaming at the top of your voice. Hold on for a couple of more lines – It’s my sapless attempt to keep you filled with suspense. Despite the fact that the villain is known in the beginning, the novel happened to be an extremely fast moving and enticing one. Written by the acknowledged writer Ken Follet (Perhaps more famous for his "Key to Rebecca"), this novel is super logical and is full of a thought flow.

The plot is thus - A scientist is made to have amnesia and is left with a drunkard in a men's room far from his home. The way the scientist tries to know who he is and his approach to find who he is, is explained with a wonderful step by step procedure. It is this extreme lucidity with which the plot is written, that makes this novel to keep its readers on their toes. Besides the way the scientist finds his own self, he tries to put a full stop to one of the rocket explosions. All these and a little romance, in about 500 and odd pages.

Making people read your works and making them read your works again and again, is a challenging task. When you deliver such a wonderful book, the expectations for the next wonder goes sky rocketing. (Do we need more than the Harry Potter series as an example for this?). There are many such good books and equally many story writers, who happen to give the world a totally different way of enjoying and passing the time.

Its time to sleep here now - the natural and heavenly way of time pass!

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