Date Published: Mid April 2014
Framed.
Hunted.
Betrayed.
Scott Walker is a fugitive from the quicksands of Finance, with one card to play - DeepShare, a silicon oracle coveted by billionaires, hitmen and hackers. As he fights for survival and vengeance, digging deeper into the dark heart of the global economy, one question torments him: what price will the world have to pay?
ZERO ALTERNATIVE is an action-packed conspiracy thriller that plucks at the heart of human nature. When our grip on love, hope and morality starts to slide, the only future worth living is the one we choose for ourselves.
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Luca Pesaro
Luca Pesaro was born in Italy in 1971, but he has spent most of his adult life in the US or UK. Being a proud UWCer, he likes to think of himself as just another random citizen of the world.
After spending a few years gaining a degree (LSE) and masters (Bocconi University) in the now mainly discreted pseudo-science that is Economics, he got bored, jumped the gun and became a derivatives trader in financial markets, first with the tragic Lehman Brothers, then with a bunch of other banks, somehow always managing not to blow up. He wrote his first novel in Italian in the mid-nineties, but then decided English worked much better for the type of stuff he liked to read and write, and switched. (Easy to do, he has forgotten most of his written Italian).
Recently he has decided to dedicate himself fully to his great passion since the age of eight – writing, mainly Fiction, but anything that amuses him at any given time. Zero Alternative is his first English novel, and he is hard at work on his second thriller, A Game of Kings.
He is married to the awesome F. and has two children, A. and J. who always manage to annoy, surprise and delight him beyond any reasonable expectation.
Website: lucapesaro.com
Twitter: @biagiotrader
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Guest Post - Parenting a Novel
One
thing I often get told when I mention my book to some acquaintance is a
version of : "Oh, that's great. You must feel so proud it's getting
published!"
Which
I am, of course. But it sort of got me thinking of exactly what I feel
about Zero Alternative being published. And I've discovered that it's a
lot more complicated than
just feeling proud. (Not in conversation, I'd come up as the worst bore
of all time if I tried to say this casually. But a blog is about
thoughts, as well, I think.)
So how do I feel?
Nervous. And excited too, curious to see what people will think of it. But nervous is definitely a part of it.
I
once tweeted to a fellow author - Nick Cook, about his highly-awaited
CloudRiders - that
sending a novel off after the final proofread feels like saying
good-bye to a good old friend who's been sleeping on your sofa for too
long. There's relief that he's found something better and is finally out
of your hair, leaving you to concentrate on other things. And a tinge
of sadness because he is a good friend, you've had some great times
together and it's never going to be quite the same. And this is all
true, but there's no fear involved in that scene.
I
guess in reality it's something closer to sending your kids off to
University, or a gap-year, or somewhere where they'll be on their own
for a long time, away from you. (Mine are actually still too young for
this sort of thing, thankfully, but not so young that it's beyond the
horizon).
You're
there, standing on the door and they're about to go and face the whole
wide world, alone. Of course you've done all you can to make sure
they're prepared for the journey and challenges, but you always wonder
what you've missed, what piece of advice (or of editing, proofreading,
which ugly line of dialogue, extra adverb, missing tidbit... you get the
picture) you should have come up with.
There's
always the niggling fear that they're not quite ready enough, that if
you just had an extra day, week, month you could have made them better
prepared for what lays ahead. Even though you know it's time to let
go.
Books
also carry an extra downside that kids don't have (though sometimes
teenagers can get you pretty close, I guess) - and it's the author's
revulsion at his own writing. After so many drafts and rereads, you
become vaccinated against the good things you put down, and the
obsessive search for warts, mistakes, the extra bit of polishing mean
that after so long concentrating on getting rid of imperfections you
think too often about the ones that might be left - and you risk the
classic kill by over care. And even that extra bit of intellectual
arrogance that every author needs to decide to show the book to other
people - this is a story that's worth telling, and you should read it! -
can break down to the point that self-doubt becomes hard to keep at
bay.
And
then out it goes, and the little voice in your head (not the one about
pickaxes and stuff, the slightly more reasonable one) is certain that
it's not good enough yet. Which is when you should sit down, read a good
book by someone else and start thinking of your next project. And have a
drink or two. Because the little voice is wrong - you've done all you
can, and now you'd just start becoming an overbearing parent.
So yes, I'm proud. And a little scared too.
Not so much that it's going to stop me from writing another one though.
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