Jess Walter “The Zero”
September 13th, 2006
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New York City police officer Brian Remy has just shot himself in the head. That’s where Jess Walter‘s darkly comic satire “The Zero” begins — Remy survives, but can’t remember why he did it.
In fact, there seems to be a lot that Remy can’t remember, in the days and weeks immediately after the September 11th attack, but he’s busy giving VIPs tours of Ground Zero, or The Zero. And as one thing leads to another, we’re left wondering who’s really in charge here.
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