Title: Meltzer's First Failure
Product review: (Beware: plot disclosure). Brad Meltzer is obviously a very smart guy, a former lawyer-turned writer. His books have that "insider" flare that really grabs the reader, at least in his first books. But now he's managed to commit a cardinal sin of novelists: killing off his narrator. In addition, THE ZERO GAME is little more than one big chase sequence, in and out of Washington. He gives very brief glimpses of Congress, and they're fun, but unfortunately they are not enough to sustain the novel. I'll look forward eagerly to Brad Meltzer's next novel, but sadly, this one just doesn't work.
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