Code to Zero

It is set out in both chapters and parts. There are six parts to the book, and an unspecified number of chapters which are titled by the time of day they are set, rather than the more common numbering system.

Plot summary

In America 1958, a man wakes up in a

Several people from his past both help and hinder his progress, and the implication is made that he himself was a Soviet spy, and had his memory erased instead of being killed - although this theory is made suspect when his old college friend reveals that he himself was once a Soviet spy and subsequently turned (but not entirely forgiven) by Lucas.

The actual spies (and

The plot is foiled with seconds to spare, and his wife apparently commits suicide rather than being caught by driving her car into the sea. The second saboteur is shot and killed in a gun battle prior to Lucas' wife's suicide.

Adaptation