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CITIZEN ZERO [Kindle Edition]

Mark Cantrell

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JobNet was supposed to usher in a better life for unemployed David Mills; instead it plunges him into a bitter struggle for survival when he is caught in the midst of a political conspiracy that pushes Britain to the brink of civil war…

A dystopian glimpse at a future born in an age of austerity and political uncertainty, with witty, acerbic prose, Citizen Zero is a gripping social satire that exposes our deepest fears, and presents a grave warning to any society that abandons the pursuit of social justice...

After austerity came prosperity and stability, but it was bought at a terrible price...

In a surveillance society blind where it matters most, a deadly conspiracy is ready to strike...

A dictatorial Prime Minister, confidant of his grip on power, is about to discover the limits of his strength...

A security operative turned terrorist is all set to bring down the man he once helped to seize power...

Welcome to Britain, a nation bitterly divided between rich and poor, as it teeters on the edge of chaos...

And unemployed David Mills is caught in the middle, torn from the woman he loves and thrown in to a terrible struggle to survive…

He’s a ‘zero’, a nobody, one of the destitute millions, but he’s also the one man who might salvage some kind of freedom out of the ruins of the future...

No wonder the Prime Minister wants him dead.

Citizen Zero blends the stark social commentary of ‘The Boys From The Blackstuff’, the millennial anarcho-chic of ‘The Matrix’, and the uncompromising force of ‘V for Vendetta’ into one devastating portrayal of tomorrow’s Britain…

The future is what we make it.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 572 KB
  • Publisher: Mark Cantrell (10 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004HD65HS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #378,831 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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What price hope? 23 April 2011
By B. Alldredge - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Citizen Zero is a story of survival. Mills has been unemployed for ten years and is not an asset to the state. His world warehouses its undesirables in an artificial reality where, it's said, employment is available. It is a story in which hope is raised and dashed again and again. The atmosphere of hopelessness pervades the novel.
I enjoyed Citizen Zero and would have given it five stars except that I had a very hard time keeping track of the government officials and what they are responsible for. Who, if anyone, is a good guy?
I would recommend this to anyone who likes a good dystopian novel.
Complex but overall worthwhile read 30 Jan 2012
By K. Sozaeva - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Disclosure: I received a free copy of this e-book from the author in exchange for my promise of an honest review.

It is the future and Britain is under a near-totalitarian rule - all in the name of security, of course. People who are on the dole, or who have in some way trespassed against the Powers that Be are stripped of their citizenship and right, and become Zeros - dependent on the government for very basic support, reviled by Stakeholders (as citizens are called) and generally dispossessed. Constantly tracked by their Nexus card, they are not allowed to assemble or do anything that might destabilize society. David Mills is one such Zero - he has been on the Dole for ten years after his job was taken over by a computerized program. Now he has been contacted by JobMart to come in for a new program, called JobNet - one goes into an artificial reality world, and seeks a job there. In AR, he could search for a new job from companies all over the world, without ever leaving his own mind. However, what he learns about that AR, and the AI that powers it, will shock the reader.

I'm really torn about this book - one the one hand, it is very well written, fairly well edited (there are a number errors of passed/past and your/you're type), the characters are well-done and it is overall technically quite good. That said, I really didn't like the story much. It was hard to follow, although by the end it all made sense (so don't despair while reading it - just keep going, you'll understand!), and really quite depressing. Then again, it is dystopian, so I guess that is to be expected. If you like dystopian books, you should really like this one. Also, I felt it had a pretty good cautionary moral - don't give away your freedoms in the name of security - that I think more people should be aware of - in many ways, it is very apropos to the modern world since 9/11, even though the book itself was written prior to that event (according to the note at the end, Cantrell wrote this in May 2001). So, my overall impulse is that people need to read this book.
"Interesting, Complex, Disturbing" 2 Aug 2011
By C.C.Cole - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
"Citizen Zero" by Mark Cantrell is a complex story about an unemployed man who enters JobNet, a complex totalitarian realm where the real and un-real overlap in this "Orwellian" like story, but with many more characters with diverse experiences. Overall, this is a well-written, highly developed novel that gives a vivid, and sometimes-horrifying picture of a dystopian world. My critique is that the story could be simplified for a more concise message, but to me it's not a discouragement to potential readers. Four stars!

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