Hostage Zero

Written by John Gilstrap

Narrated by Basil Sands

A mysterious kidnapping kicks off "a roller-coaster ride of adrenaline-inducing plot twists" in this thriller by the New York Times bestselling author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

With his elite team of agents at Security Solutions, hostage rescue expert Jonathan Grave goes where the government can't. Now he's been called in to locate two teenage boys who have been kidnapped from a residential high school in Virginia. But tracking them down is just the beginning.

To keep them and his covert team alive, Grave plunges into the heart of an ugly secret whose insidious path reaches from one of the world's most remote places into the highest corridors of power. And he must defeat enemies who are willing to kill to keep the truth from being revealed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666169645

John Gilstrap

John Gilstrap is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of nearly twenty novels, including the acclaimed Jonathan Grave thrillers. Against All Enemies won the International Thriller Writers’ Award for Best Paperback of 2015. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. An expert in explosives safety and a former firefighter, he holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia. Please visit him on Facebook or at johngilstrap.com.

Reviews for Hostage Zero

[Yvette Bonett · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Enjoyed this story. Fast paced with a good storyline involving a kidnapping of 2 boys to cover up a previous deed of a political figure. Narrator was also good. Will be listening to more books from this author!

[LeslieHerring · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Overall decent story, plenty of action. However, as an Alaskan I have to object to some very incorrect information in the part of the story set in Alaska. He refers to there being an oak tree, but they don’t occur in Alaska. And then he refers to the law enforcement officer as a sheriff, of which there are exactly zero in Alaska (we have State Troopers as our rural law enforcement). He also gives the sheriff a name that would not be used by an Alaskan Native person. The part that really bugs me is that this would all be information very easy to research and get right, so it’s just lazy writing on the part of the author, and bad editing by whoever edits for him. A big pet peeve of mine whenever I encounter it (it happens far too often).