Name: Blackout
ISBN: 9783764504458

Marc Elsberg

Plötzlich, mitten im kalten Monat Februar, bricht die Stromversorgung in ganz Europa zusammen. Niemand ahnt warum. Lediglich der Informatiker und ehemalige Hacker, Pier Manzano, erkennt, dass es sich um einen Hackerangriff handelt. Während sich die Lage auf den Strassen und die Versorgung der Bevölkerung immer weiter zuspitzt versucht Manzano die zuständigen Behörden von seinem Verdacht zu überzeugen. Dies bringt ihm aber mehr Schwierigkeiten ein als er sich gedacht hat.

morgen ist es zu spät ; Roman

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.

Was reading The Swarm by Frank Schätzing. This is fine, but couldn’t stand a chance 

Dominik

This was a tad too realistic for my taste but it was also very thrilling and I get why so many people like the book. It took me a while to get into the story and the frequent changes of POV and I’d wish there would have been a bit more depth in regard of what the characters are feeling and how society as a whole collapses. 

Stephanie 

Are you prepared for several hours without electricity? Yeah, maybe, that can happen and will go by in no time. But what if several hours will become a day, a day a week and more? 

Blackout is a thrilling book showing what might happen if the majority of the western world will be out of electricity. From not working water and limit of food to rioting on the streets, banditry and the poping up of black markets - they are just small steps away from each other after, otherwise taken for granted, public systems cease to function properly.

The topic of the book is page turning as society us spiraling downwards faster and faster. However I am personally not the biggest fan of the main characters of this otherwise great read, therefore 3,5 out of 5 for me.

André 

Are you prepared for several hours without electricity? Yeah, maybe, that can happen and will go by in no time. But what if several hours will become a day, a day a week and more? 

Blackout is a thrilling book showing what might happen if the majority of the western world will be out of electricity. From not working water and limit of food to rioting on the streets, banditry and the poping up of black markets - they are just small steps away from each other after, otherwise taken for granted, public systems cease to function properly.

The topic of the book is page turning as society us spiraling downwards faster and faster. However I am personally not the biggest fan of the main characters of this otherwise great read, therefore 3,5 out of 5 for me.

I honestly think everyone should read/listen to this book. It touches on countless important topics of the 21st century 

Lili

Vedat Güven

Avrupa çapındaki bir elektrik kesintisi üzerine kurgulanan bir kitap. Bu çaptaki kesintinin ekonomik, sosyal, toplumsal etkileri güzel anlatılmış. İşin içerisinde bir iş var. Zevkle okunuyor.

Nick Bicko

** spoiler alert **
           Während der Lektüre lernt man den Status Quo (mit Strom) richtig wertzuschätzen.

Stefan Ladstätter-Thaa

Johannes Ecker

Jannis M

Andi Herzbube

Niklas Siefke

Tomek Skupiński

THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER PUBLISHED IN 15 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE A 21ST-CENTURY HIGH-CONCEPT DISASTER THRILLER Tomorrow will be too late. A cold night in Milan, Piero Manzano wants to get home. Then the traffic lights fail. Manzano is thrown from his Alfa as cars pile up. And not just on this street - every light in the city is dead. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electricity grids collapse. Plunged into darkness, people are freezing. Food and water supplies dry up. The death toll soars. Former hacker and activist Manzano becomes a prime suspect. But he is also the only man capable of finding the real attackers. Can he bring down a major terrorist network Before it's too late?

Blackout morgen ist es zu spät ; Roman

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