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Blackout

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Blackout

"Fast, tense, thrilling --- and timely: Highly recommended."
    --- Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

A terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller.

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.

Blackout
by Marc Elsberg

  • Publication Date: March 6, 2018
  • Genres: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • ISBN-10: 1492654698
  • ISBN-13: 9781492654698