Zig & Nola · Book 3
The Viper
- Published
- 6 January 2026
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9780062892430
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Viper closes Brad Meltzer's Zig & Nola trilogy in January 2026 as its shortest entry at 400 pages, continuing Dover Air Force Base mortician Jim 'Zig' Zigarowski and Army artist-in-residence Nola Brown's partnership after The Lightning Rod. Also marketed as the Escape Artist series, it builds on Meltzer's research into Dover's real port mortuary operations for a procedural texture distinct from his earlier Washington-conspiracy novels.
Its place in Zig & Nola
The Viper is book 3 in the Zig & Nola series. It follows The Lightning Rod. See the full Zig & Nola reading order.
Also marketed under its first book's title as the "Escape Artist" series, this trilogy pairs Jim "Zig" Zigarowski, a mortician at the U.S. military's official mortuary at Dover Air Force Base who prepares America's war dead and quietly investigates anything that looks wrong about a death, with Nola Brown, the U.S. Army's reclusive artist-in-residence, whose sketchbook skills mask a far more dangerous set of talents and a past she works hard to keep buried. The Escape Artist opens when a body arrives at Dover for…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062892430
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780062892461