Blackout
Subtitle: a novel
By: Marc Elsberg ; translated by Marshall Yarbrough
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781492654414
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Computer crimes; Electric power failures; Investigation; Hackers; Fiction
Other titles: Black out
Work titles: Blackout
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published in German as, Blackout : morgen ist es zu spät ; Roman.  München : Blanvalet, 2012.