Cold Barrel Zero
- Published
- 29 March 2016
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780316259194
- Type
- novel
About this book
Matthew Quirk's Cold Barrel Zero (March 2016) runs 368 pages, opening the John Hayes series as the former Marine Special Operations officer is framed for a domestic terror attack he didn't commit and goes on the run to clear his name.
Key facts about Cold Barrel Zero
Cold Barrel Zero is a novel by Matthew Quirk. Readers have had it since 29 March 2016. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Cold Barrel Zero. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316259194 to find the main one.
Cold Barrel Zero is book 1 of 2 in the John Hayes series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Dead Man Switch is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 21 March 2017.
Additionally, Matthew Quirk writes Mike Ford as a separate series. Those series sit on our thriller shelf. Meanwhile, The Method is the latest published Matthew Quirk book on file, from 20 January 2026.
About Matthew Quirk
Matthew Quirk is an American thriller writer who studied history and literature at Harvard College before spending five years as a staff writer for The Atlantic, reporting on crime, private military contractors, the opium trade, terrorism prosecutions and international gangs -- reporting that gave him the institutional and security-world detail he has drawn on across his fiction since. See every Matthew Quirk book in order.
Its place in John Hayes
Cold Barrel Zero is book 1 in the John Hayes series. It is followed by Dead Man Switch. See the full John Hayes reading order.
John Hayes is a former Marine Special Operations officer whose skills at extraction and evasion put him at the center of Quirk's second series. Cold Barrel Zero opens with Hayes framed for a domestic terror attack he didn't commit, forcing him to go on the run to clear his name while uncovering the real conspiracy behind the attack; Dead Man Switch follows him into a deep-cover mission gone wrong, hunting a mole inside his own former special-operations community. As in Quirk's other work, the series is built on…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316259194
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316259217