Zero Point

by Wasique Mirza

Overview

ZERO POINT: Malik Jahangir, the man who would be Prime Minister of Pakistan, is dead; assassinated during a public rally at the peak of his election campaign. Dr. Kamran Haider, a brilliant trauma surgeon, and his accidental partner Sana Aziz, a feisty female reporter, are unwittingly caught in a cat and mouse game with a ruthless assassin who was brought up in a missionary orphanage in the Bronx. Caught between the demons that have haunted him all his life, and the unfamiliar sights and sounds of the streets of Pakistan’s capitol, he hunts the two people who have the information to prove that assassination of Malik Jahangir may have motives beyond local politics and religious fundamentalism. As the story unfolds, characters in Pakistani and American politics emerge, revealing a conspiracy that involves political ambitions, regional dominance and motives rooted in a race for the natural resources of the region.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013775114
Publisher:	Wasique Mirza
Publication date:	07/22/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	356
File size:	370 KB

About the Author

Wasique Mirza is a physician by profession. He has been free lance writing all his life and is recently being published as a guest columnist in the Times-Tribune of Scranton, PA. He grew up in Pakistan and now lives in the United States and brings his unique dual background as an inspiration for his writings. He currently resides in NE Pennsylvania with his family.

Editorial Reviews

ZERO POINT by author Wasique Mirza is a political thriller that keeps the reader waiting, wondering, and in complete suspense until its surprising conclusion. Still, the reader cannot let out his breath because it is clear that the game is still on; that only the players have changed. It is check without ever achieving checkmate. The story moves swiftly between characters and locations in Pakistan and the United States, and the reader only learns if the character is a king, a bishop a pawn.

Dorothy Riley

The twists and turns in the plot are especially riveting. Who can Dr. Haider and Ms. Aziz trust? How can they secure help in a government riddled with unscrupulous and unsavory characters? Where can they find a safe haven to parse through the evidence they have uncovered? The ending is a surprise, not only to the reader, but to the characters themselves.If you are looking for a good political thriller with a twisting plot, look no further than Wasique Mira's Zero Point.

Beth Perry

Wasique Mirza is a Physician who has ome of the gifts of the other physician writers of history: Anton Chekhov, W. Somerset Maugham, Amitabh Mitra, Khaled Hosseini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Crichton to name only a few. ZERO POINT is a story waiting to become a film: The author has provided all of the elements for adapting a tense thriller into a richly colorful tapestry on which his palpably lifelike characters he has created play out a story that will keep the reader on seat's edge.

Grady Harp

Wasique Mirza's first novel makes a highly impressive attempt at unraveling the complex political dramas and multi-layered intrigues plaguing Pakistan and also explores the consequent human toll of this new 'Great Game' at several societal and individual levels. Closely familiar with Pakistan's diverse socio-political terrain and its equally varied physical topography, he brings to his narrative a minuteness of observation and an eye for detail that lends it credibility and readability.

Osama Siddique

Dr Mirza also conveys through this novel the hopes and aspirations of Pakistan's silent ,innocent majority who until now have been easily manipulated by their devious ,self serving and power hungry politicians. Wasique Mirza with this exciting novel is following in the footsteps of a select few like Dr Abraham Verghese and Dr Atul Gawande- celebrated physicians of South Asian origin who are equally skilled with the written word. Hoping this book is the first of many from the pen of Wasique Mirza

Rajan Muloth