Cold Barrel Zero

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…