“Okay. Yes. Thank you.” It was all he could think to say.
Outside, on the streets of Baltimore, Zero walked. He wasn’t heading to his car. He wasn’t heading anywhere. He walked until he didn’t know where he was, and then he walked further.
He passed faces. Some smiled. Others laughed. Some argued, and some minded their own business.
Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
He wondered if any of these people had just discovered that their battle was a losing one.
His own brain was going to kill him, and he had no idea when.
What would he tell his daughters? What would he tell Maria?
Nothing, he decided. Both of his girls were at home waiting for him. Tomorrow he had a dinner date with Maria. He had a head full of memories as an assassin that he still wasn’t sure were real or not. He clearly did not know everything there was to know about himself, and he might not ever, at this rate.
He was going to start forgetting things permanently. And not just how to load a gun. The faces of those he loved. Maybe their names. The time spent with them. The very memories he had clung to in what he thought would be the final moments of his life, in the nuclear facility.
And all that would happen before he died.
Zero stopped. Across the street was a bag lady, a nest of gray hair heaped atop her head, shopping cart at her side, holding a cardboard sign aloft for anyone who would pause to read it.
It said: THE END IS NIGH.
“It certainly seems that way,” he murmured.
All the more reason to enjoy the time he had left with those he loved. He could have died a hundred times by now, maybe more. He should have died a few times just in the past week.
Zero made a vow to himself at that very moment: he would spend his remaining days doing whatever he could to make the world a better place. Not just for him, but for those who came after. For his daughters. For the survivors, like Maria and Alan and Strickland.
If his battle was going to be a losing one, then he would do whatever he could to make damn sure the war was won.
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A new, high-tech railgun is invented, with a capability of firing an indefensible missile, seven times the speed of sound—and the fate of America is at risk. Who or what is the target? And who will be behind its launch?
In a mad race against time, Agent Zero must use all of his skills to track down the source of this unstoppable weapon and figure out its destination before it is too late.
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DECOY ZERO
(An Agent Zero Spy Thriller—Book #8)
Jack Mars
Jack Mars is the USA Today bestselling author of the LUKE STONE thriller series, which includes seven books. He is also the author of the new FORGING OF LUKE STONE prequel series, comprising three books (and counting); and of the AGENT ZERO spy thriller series, comprising seven books (and counting).
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BOOKS BY JACK MARS
LUKE STONE THRILLER SERIES
ANY MEANS NECESSARY (Book #1)
OATH OF OFFICE (Book #2)
SITUATION ROOM (Book #3)
OPPOSE ANY FOE (Book #4)
PRESIDENT ELECT (Book #5)
OUR SACRED HONOR (Book #6)
HOUSE DIVIDED (Book #7)
FORGING OF LUKE STONE PREQUEL SERIES
PRIMARY TARGET (Book #1)
PRIMARY COMMAND (Book #2)
PRIMARY THREAT (Book #3)
PRIMARY GLORY (Book #4)
AN AGENT ZERO SPY THRILLER SERIES
AGENT ZERO (Book #1)
TARGET ZERO (Book #2)
TRAPPING ZERO (Book #4)
FILE ZERO (Book #5)
RECALL ZERO (Book #6)
ASSASSIN ZERO (Book #7)
DECOY ZERO (Book #8)
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE
CHAPTER FORTY
CHAPTER FORTY ONE