His entry begins:One of the great blurbs my agent secured for Zero Day is by Nelson DeMille. I’d of course seen his books on the bestseller lists and on the display racks at the book store, but had never read one. When I told my friends about the blurb, many said that DeMille was among their favorite authors. The genres I spend most of my time in are thrillers, non-fiction and science fiction, but I decided that getting acquainted with the works of someone that so generously provided a blurb and that has such a great reputation with my reading friends would probably pay off.Among the early praise for Zero Day:
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"Mark came to Microsoft in 2006 to help advance the state of the art of Windows, now in his latest compelling creation he is raising awareness of the all too real threat of cyber terrorism."Read an excerpt from the novel, and learn more about the book and author at the Zero Day website and blog.
--Bill Gates
"CyberTerrorism. Get used to that word and understand it because you're going to see more of it in the newspapers and hear it on the news in the not too distant future. Mark Russinovich is a CyberSecurity expert who has turned his considerable knowledge into a very scary and too plausible novel. Zero Day is not science fiction; itis science fact, and it is a clear warning of Doomsday. A must-read for all Americans and for those entrusted with our security and our survival."
--Nelson DeMille
"While what Mark wrote is fiction, the risks that he writes about eerily mirror many situations that we see today."
--Howard A. Schmidt, White House Cyber Security Coordinator
"An up-to-the-moment ticking-clock thriller, Zero Day imagines the next 9/11 in a frightening but all too believable way. An expert in the field, Mark Russinovich writes about cyberterrorism with a mix of technical authority and dramatic verve. I was riveted."
--William Landay, author of The Strangler
The Page 69 Test: Zero Day.
Writers Read: Mark Russinovich.
--Marshal Zeringue
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