Blackout (Elsberg novel)
Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late AuthorMarc ElsbergOriginal titleBlackout – Morgen ist es zu spätLanguageGermanSubjectPower outageGenrethrillerPublisherBlack Swan20122017Pages350AwardsWissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2012ISBN978-1784161897 (first edition in English)Followed byZero – Sie wissen, was du tust
Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".
Published in German in 2012, as of 2016[update] it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide. The English version was published in 2017.
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.
Plot
The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster. The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc. A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. While doing so he himself becomes a hunted person as officials find suspicious e-mails sent from his laptop and think that he is involved.
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