The Zero Game

As I catch up on Meltzer’s novels, they get better and better. In other books I found myself thinking, “Don’t go down in the dark basement alone. That is where the killer is.” With The Zero Game, there was very little of this. In other words, the main characters did not make as many dumb decisions.

For sure because of what is happening around us politically, I found myself focused on fairness as I read. Specifically, others taking stuff that is not theirs and they did not work for.

I wonder how many of our problems today would be solved if no one took something that was not theirs, did not expect someone else to cover for them, and we all legally and ethically worked for whatever we gained? My conclusion, this would not solve everything, but it would solve a lot.

The main “bad guys” in Zero Game wanted something they did not want to work for. Sure, they worked the “system” to get the goods, but they did not actually work for it. They expected favors, manipulated the weak, and threatened to get what they wanted.

“Just do the work and earn it”, is what I kept thinking. About the novel. About the wars around our world. And about our current politics.

SHINE!
The Road Rider

(And getting elected is only 10% of the work. Taking short cuts only work in the short term and hurt almost everyone in the long term.)