The future is what we make it…

“It’s like Philip K Dick wrote The Matrix!”
Craig Hallam, author of Oshibana Complex

JOBNET was supposed to usher in a better life for unemployed David Mills. Instead he’s plunged into a bitter struggle to survive when he is caught in a political conspiracy that pushes Britain to the brink of chaos…

A gripping science fiction thriller in the dystopian tradition, CITIZEN ZERO presents a chilling vision of a future born in an age of austerity, political uncertainty, and economic calamity.

On the surface, Britain has become a prosperous consumer society but behind the facade lurks a country fractured by bitter inequality and wracked by fear.

It’s a country where AI has devastated jobs, what is left of the Welfare State has become an integral part of an unforgiving surveillance machine, and a destitute underclass numbering millions ekes out a despised existence.

But things are about to change. David is the unwitting pawn in a game he never asked to play…

The Matrix meets V for Vendetta with a twist of I, DANIEL BLAKE

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Available in paperback and digital editions

Page Count: 482 (Paperback)

Inspired Quill, 2017

Paperback Price: £9.99 | eBook Price: £3.49

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-908600-51-6 | eBook ISBN: 978-1-908600-52-3

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“Those people are no-hopers.”

“And what does that make me?”

In a bitterly divided nation where security trumps civil liberty, unemployed David is on the verge of sinking into the ‘Zeros’ – a destitute underclass numbering millions. But then JobNet’s advanced virtual reality world offers him a gateway to a worthwhile future, and a chance to rejoin society.

But David is an unwitting pawn in a deadly conspiracy to topple the Government: he’s the ideal carrier for an intelligent virus designed to shatter the system and set the Zeros free.

When the virus activates, chaos ensues and the Zeros rise. David is left trapped inside a corrupted reality. If it doesn’t shatter his sanity, the secret he finds there will change everything…

Sometimes even a pawn can hold the balance of power.