- Published: 13 June 2019
- ISBN: 9781784163488
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $27.99
Code Zero
The unputdownable international bestselling thriller

















- Published: 13 June 2019
- ISBN: 9781784163488
- Imprint: Black Swan
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $27.99
A highly topical thriller depicting the online world of activists against IT companies illegally collecting and analysing personal data.
Der Spiegel, Germany
A topical nightmare scenario - but Elsberg says it became a reality long ago.
Hit Radio RT 1 Germany
Marc Elsberg has a sixth sense for burning issues. So sinister and realistic, it will make you download encryption software after reading.
Glamour
The technology already exists, but Elsberg takes their possible effects to a dramatic extremes and paints a future dystopia that leaves us truly shaken up.
ZEIT Wissen
This is the go-to thriller that ignites topical debate around Google and the right to personal privacy. A nightmare that as Elsberg sees it has long become a reality.
FOCUS
With his new thriller Elsberg is fast becoming the voice of public discourse in one of the most important fields of our time.
Handelsblatt
As with BLACKOUT, Elsberg combines a realistic near-future scenario with a cleverly constructed plot - a thriller that confronts our deepest fears.
ZDF
A gripping thriller and a visionary book on the subject of 'Big Data'
rbb Kulturradio
A topical thriller set in the world of online activists pitted against corrupt IT companies who collect and analyse personal data.
Der Spiegel
A highly topical nightmarish scenario, which Elsberg says became a reality long ago.
Hit radio rt1
A gripping thriller and a visionary story on the subject of 'Big Data'
rbb Kulturradio
With this thriller Elsberg qualifies as the spokesman for perhaps the most important debate in society today.
Bild
As with BLACKOUT Elsberg combines a realistic future scenario with a cleverly constructed plot - a thriller that confronts our fears.
ZDF
Marc Elsberg has a sixth sense for burning issues. So sinister and realistic, it will make you download encryption software immediately after reading.
Glamour
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH: [Exposes] the dark underbelly of social media giants' societal control via the manipulation of data. Elsberg is nothing if not prescient.
Barry Forshaw, Guardian
This may be fiction but it is unnervingly realistic.
Choice magazine
Zero is a tense tech thriller that reads worryingly real.
Jon Wise, Sunday Sport
A captivating read and a very well-researched techno-thriller
Andrew Hill, Shots magazine
[Elsberg] takes us on a breathless pursuit of Freemee across the globe.
For Winter Nights
A thriller that explores how information can be controlled, repurposed and used to exploit people... Zero is thoroughly entertaining.
The Eloquent Page
[Elsberg] throws everything at you, and it kept me hooked throughout.
Zooloo Book Blog
Filled with smart characters, plenty of action... A wake-up call for all of the people who are glued to their gadgets.
Book Inspector
Elsberg's writing is intriguing, fierce and smart.
Always Trust in Books