{Zero is the debut sci-fi novel by J.S. Collyer}
Released August 2014 through Amazon and all good online stores.
Kaleb Hugo is everything an officer of the Service should be: loyal, expertly trained, unquestioning. He has done everything ever ordered of him and has done so with a pride that comes from knowing you are fighting for the good of humankind… until the day that he made a decision, as he has had to many times before, in order to ensure the best outcome for the Service, even though it was in direct violation of regulations.
A battle was won, but Hugo was condemned and dishonourably discharged by Service commanders for going against orders and risking himself and his unit to save an inhabited satellite that had been determined as an acceptable loss.
Officially, anyway.
Unofficially, Hugo was re-assigned to captain the crew of the Zero, an eight-man craft that is classified in all Service records as, at best, a privateer ship and at worse a smuggling and borderline criminal enterprise vessel. What very few people in the Service know is that the Zero, and its crew, are contracted by the Service. Their role is to investigate and infiltrate the less savoury and unacknowledged levels of human society. They sell on, buy in, bargain, threaten and report back on everything the political levels the Service don’t officially want to know.
The Zero’s rag-tag crew look to their commander, Ezekiel Webb, as their leader and middleman between the regimented expectations of the Service and the harsh and unpredictable demands of the underworld of colonial space. He knows he is not captain material but has not managed to serve well under any that have been placed over him. Both Captain and Commander clash, but they will have to adapt and find a compromise if the Zero is to carry out her missions successfully and for the harmony of the crew.
As the Zero is assigned missions by Colonel Luscombe, her crew is pulled deeper into an orbit-wide game of politics, deceit and corruption which will threaten to tear them apart and throw Humanity back into a cycle of war and destruction. To stop this and preserve the fragile peace, Hugo, Webb and the crew will have to overcome personal tragedy, insurmountable odds and every cruel depraved twist of fate that the Orbit can throw at them.
As events escalate out of control, Hugo will have to go against everything he has ever believed in to save his crew and billions of innocent people. The outcome is always uncertain, but for the crew of the Zero, it was always this way. What will transpire will decide not just their fate, but the destiny of the entire Human Race.
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22698602-zero
Released August 2014 through Amazon and all good online stores.
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MY THOUGHTS:
ZERO by J. S. Collyer is an interesting debut Sci-Fi novel. An interesting take on sci-fi. While, Sci-Fi is not my favorite genre, I found ZERO to be interesting as well as intriguing. The characters where engaging and entertaining. Well written, with danger, adventure and excitement. A well thought out plot and characters. If you enjoy Sci-Fi, you will probably enjoy ZERO as well. I look forward to more from this author. Received for an honest review.
Rating: 4
Heat Rating: mild
Reviewed by: AprilR, courtesy of My Book Addiction and More






Sounds like a great read for a rainy weekend like this one.