Zero Sum Game

Zero Sum Game is a Star Trek: Typhon Pact novel – the first novel in the series – written by David Mack. Published by Pocket Books, it was first released in . 
The novel features Julian Bashir and Ezri Dax's crew of the and explores the culture and society of the Breen.
== Summary ==
;From the book jacket
:A spy for the Typhon Pact – a new political rival of the Federation – steals the plans for Starfleet's newest technological advance: the slipstream drive. To stop the Typhon Pact from unlocking the drive's secrets, Starfleet Intelligence recruits a pair of genetically enhanced agents: Dr. Julian Bashir, of station Deep Space 9, and Sarina Douglas, a woman whose talents Bashir helped bring to fruition, and whom Bashir thinks of as his long-lost true love.
:Bashir and Douglas are sent to infiltrate the mysterious species known as the Breen, find the hidden slipstream project, and destroy it. Meanwhile, light-years away, Captain Ezri Dax and her crew on the USS Aventine play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a Typhon Pact fleet that stands between them and the safe retrieval of Bashir and Douglas from hostile territory.
== Background information ==
*Zero Sum Game introduces a storyline that continues with Disavowed, A Ceremony of Losses and Control.
* The novel was announced at the Shore Leave convention on . It was originally scheduled to be the second novel in the series, but swapped with Seize the Fire in the schedule. 
* The cover art was revealed by Mack on . Mark Rademaker designed the Aventine for the cover.
* Cover art and design by Alan Dingman.
== Characters ==
;Julian Bashir
;Ezri Dax
;Elias Vaughn
;Sarina Douglas
;Ro Laren
;Quark
;Alynna Nechayev
;Leonard James Akaar
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;Patrick
;Lauren
;Simon Tarses
== External links ==
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Category:Novels