Blackout : a novel / Marc Elsberg ; translated by Marshall Yarbrough.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 316 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781492654414
- 1492654418
- 833/.92 23
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Book | Bedford Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F ELS | Available | 32500005401162 |
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"Fast, tense, thrilling -- and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." --Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
This is no accident.
This is no act of God.
This is a Blackout.
When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere.
A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on--it keeps us alive.
Includes bibliographical references.
When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on--it keeps us alive.
Originally published in German as, Blackout : morgen ist es zu spät ; Roman. MÃ1/4nchen : Blanvalet, 2012.