Blackout: A Novel (Hardcover)

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Blackout: A Novel (Hardcover)

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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.

Marc Elsberg is a former creative director in advertising. His debut thriller BLACKOUT is a frighteningly plausible drama of an international blackout caused by a hacker attack. An instant bestseller in Germany, it has sold over a million copies and has been translated worldwide. Marc Elsberg lives in Vienna, Austria.

Product Details ISBN: 9781492654414
ISBN-10: 1492654418
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Publication Date: June 6th, 2017
Pages: 320
Language: English
"Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." — Lee Child

"Blackout is truly terrifying in its all-too-realistic premise. The action jumps from country to country as the blackout spreads, racing towards an ending which is absolutely lights-out." — Sandra Block, ITW Thriller Award finalist and author of Little Black Lies and The Girl Without a Name

"Marc Elsberg's brilliantly written techno-thriller vividly shows how terrorists, instead of using guns and bombs, can sit at a keyboard and use computer code to bring the world to its knees." — Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves

"…intriguing and authentic, Blackout crackles with tension." — Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author

"Part Dan Brown–style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut—a best-seller in Germany—will get people talking." — Booklist

"lsberg delivers a thrilling read and sucks readers into a mind-boggling, all too scary world." — Library Journal