I really like this author and have enjoyed reading most of his books.This is the 1st book in the John Puller Series and introduces John Puller, the hero, who works in the military.Good writing, good plot and some great characters.Enjoyable read.

And just when I thought I had finished the Jack Reacher series, Lee Child er...David Baldacci writes another Reacher the first Puller novel.Jack Reacher John Puller is a crackerjack military investigator, who heads out of the DC area to the south, to check out the death of a senior officer in unsavory conditions. Reacher sorries, Puller is a big dude, and he likes to punch people. Also he travels light. And punchy. Jack Reacher John Puller comes from a military family. His father died now has Al...

Probably not one of Baldacci’s best books but still a very good read. As many people have commented, Puller is a Jack Reacher clone but there is nothing really wrong with that. And there is an excellent and quite tense story line in there too. I rather liked John Puller and felt a little sad for him and his Dad and brother. Puller’s character was developed well throughout the book as was that of his ‘partner’ Sam. There was a little bit of stereotyping and occasional over the top moments but mos...

I enjoyed my last book by Baldacci, but this one hit too many of my hot buttons. The hero was too heroic, a super hero who could solve a murder, beat up the toughest, be a CSI tech, & figure out the crime from a mark in the dust. Think NCIS with Puller in all the roles from Gibbs down to that cute, weird girl in the lab. Seriously, he was doing better than Ducky at one point. But he can't figure out the difference between the sound of a fan & a possible opponent. Ugh.Possibly worse, Baldacci kep...

Puller is quite the tough guy. And an effective CID.I had trouble putting this down, but I didn’t like the end. Boo!

John Puller, a decorated army war hero of Iraq and Afghanistan, is now an investigator with the army CID (Criminal Investigation Division). When he is sent to the small town of Drake in rural West Virginia to investigate the murders of an Army colonel and his family, he wonders what is so special about this case that he is the sole investigator, supported only by the local DS, Samantha "Sam" Cole. What he eventually uncovers is a conspiracy which could have disastrous consequences.I can see why

It's not often I'm compelled to drop a book out of sheer despair, but this is one of them. Well, not literally, since it was in audio format on my phone, and dropping it would have had serious consequences. But at the 54 minute mark of the 57 minute second cd, enough was enough. At a crime scene, Baldacci's shameless clone of Jack Reacher, here called Puller, started explaining in relentless, unpitying and irrelevant detail how to take a flash photograph. This took several chapters, or seemed th...

Red.Poorly written.Cliche-filled. This is a book. It is a book with a red cover. It is written in short sentences. Like this. That is supposed to make the reader feel like things are happening. I guess.This book is about a man, Puller. Puller is in the Army. He's just a man. In the army. Where he belongs. He investigates things. Like a badass. Sometimes, he saves people's lives. Except when he fails. He remembers combat. Sleeps. Lightly. M11 in his hand. Three seconds to wake and shoot. He has m...

Whoa! Wonderful! The first book with the John Puller character. Absolutely loved the story.Also the first introduction to his family and the mysteries involved with that triangle. Father, brother and himself strongly patriotic with US Army as the demanding mistress. Unputdownable

The good guy is perfect and the bad guys are really, really evil. Sometimes David Baldacci gets it just right and sometimes he just falls flat. I am putting Zero Day in the latter category.John Puller is in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division and is called upon to investigate a murder in a small West Virginia coal mining town. While there, he learns these deaths may have very large implications.The story really falls short in a number of ways. First, the sheer size and scope of the invest...

I am a huge fan of the Will Robie series, so I thought I'd try the John Puller books. Plus action/adventure and suspense fans really recommend this series. John Puller is more like Jack Reacher than Will Robie. He's enlisted army and he's an investigator of crime scenes with military ties. His father is a three star general and his brother is in max security prison for treason. John is a by the books guy who follows the evidence. He is a decorated combat veteran with PTSD, but he manages to work...

Excellent thriller! John Puller is my new favorite hero. I had read Baldacci's Daylight and was really intrigued by a military hero in that book that when a friend told me there was an entire John Puller series I couldn't wait to start it. I'm really glad I did. This book had everything I like in thrillers - a great hero, political intrigue, a scary situation, tension, an interesting investigation, and the pursuit of justice. Can't wait to read the next one - I'm behind!

I put this on my "Thriller" shelf as that's what this is supposed to be. Sadly it doesn't really move fast enough to actually give, "thrills". Our hero a warrant officer investigator for the Army CID (Criminal Investigation Division) gets called to WV when a flag officer and his entire family are murdered. The flag officer (Full bird colonel) was an intelligence type. Things get odd rather quickly... The crime is important enough for a CID investigator but then he's sent in alone with no back up...

My second Baldacci book, but my first thriller. I really enjoyed it!John Puller is an Army Investigator sent deep into the hills and hollers of West Virginia, right in the heart of Coal Country, to investigate the odd death of a man that is…well, somehow tied to the military. The more Puller digs, the more shady stuff he begins to uncover, and pretty soon he’s looking at a deep, deep conspiracy that reaches far further than anyone dreamed.Was this the most unique book in the world? Of course not...

I have read a few books by this author and have never been disappointed until now. I was really looking forward to it as well So I am doubly disappointed. Now I normally do not have any issue with this authors writing style until now. Since when has it been ok to talk in very short sentences. If this was an audio book I get the feeling the narrator would speak to me slowly.Also, no offense but this has been done before. Too many times before. The main character is Puller who is a highly decorate...

I really like David Baldacci's books. He is intelligent and provides a suspense filled story with clean dialogue and well written characters. This particular book just didn't grab me. The problem was the acronyms for me. The protagonist is military and a lot of acronyms are used that I don't know. They are defined but I didn't want to keep looking back in the book to be reminded. Like I said, Baldacci is brilliant and he understands a lot of things that I don't having to do with forensics which

I've read several of David Baldacci's books, and enjoyed them. "Zero Day," however, isn't one of them. Baldacci's main character -- Army investigator John Puller -- is a dull twin of Lee Child's popular protagonist Jack Reacher. It was surprising to see so many similarities to such a well-known character like Reacher. The first time Puller craved coffee, I thought "Reacher." Aside from a strange (I hope coincidental) similarity to a well-known contemporary character, this book is filled with unn...

Zero Day by David BaldacciBaldacci has a new hero, a new ethos and another, never boring cliff hanging, throat grabbing thriller. John Puller takes over for John Carr without a Camel Club or a gang of cronies. Although Puller is dedicated Army, he runs without a safety net throughout the book. The Army is his life and his passion is it’s Criminal Investigative Division. He is an elite Army cop and he is thrown into a situation involving mass mayhem. Every time he turns around there is another mu...

When I first noticed John Puller, the first thing that struck me were his obvious similarities to Jack Reacher. Both are MPs (of sorts), both are big men and both of them kick ass. Obviously, this resemblance combined with the fact that the series is authored by David Baldacci, meant that I had high expectations and wasted no time in reading it.Now that I have finished it, I am a bit disappointed though. On the positive side, John Puller's character as well as those surrounding him are fleshed o...

Its as though Baldacci was being paid by the word as apposed to writing a tight cohesive novel that I've grown accustomed to reading. The rest of this story is unnecessarily long and only the crisp ending raises this novel to 5 of 10 stars