Preview

Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

ZED

By: Joanna Kavenna
Narrated by: Guy Mott
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $23.98

Buy for $23.98

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

A blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want and what we do - before we do.

Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias has become one of the world's most powerful and influential figures. Untaxed and ungoverned, his company, Beetle, essentially operates beyond the control of governments or the law.

But trouble is never far away, and for Guy a perfect storm is brewing: his wife wants to leave him; malfunctioning Beetle software has led to some unfortunate deaths which are proving hard to cover up; and a mystery hacker, Gogol, is on his trail.

With the clock ticking - Guy, his aide Douglas Varley, conflicted national security agent Eloise Jayne, depressed journalist David Strachey and Gogol, whoever that may be - the question is becoming ever more pressing: how do you live in reality when nobody knows anything, and all knowledge, all certainty, is partly or entirely fake?

©2019 Joanna Kavenna (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Critic reviews

"An idiosyncratic, joyously page-turning thriller - and one of the cleverest books you'll read this year." (Telegraph)

"It's chillingly believable, but Zed is also extremely funny [...] Kavenna remains one of the most brilliant and disconcerting British writers working today." (Spectator)

"A work of delirious genius." (Guardian, Book of the Day)

What listeners say about ZED

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.