During the blackout a whole series of related events start, clean water becomes hard to find, people are freezing in the cold winters due to lack of heating day by day normal society is breaking down. Who is behind this and what is they want? This is a conspiracy thriller that will keep you palms of hands sweating until the exciting finale. Here in this gripping novel this is exactly what happens and how the life we take for granted just grinds to a halt.

On a Europe wide scale this is a terrifying prospect that must worry leaders across Europe. In Blackout Marc Elsberg goes to great lengths and tells us just how sophisticated these criminals are and just how easily it is to take down entire systems including Nuclear Power Plants and just imagine what would happen after, panic would ensue and chaos would follow. Maybe we are all guilty of taking our power supply for granted knowing that if there was a problem it would be resolved as quickly as they could. Everything we take for granted would go down in a heartbeat. In Blackout you have the realistic plot that will have you rooted to your chair to the very end.Ī lot of major businesses have what they call disaster plans for an eventuality that may occur but at the time of writing this review the news feed is full of news of state sponsored or terrorist cyber-crime of trying to hack into power grids and worse, this is actually more frightening than you think when you scratch the surface and just see what could be achieved if successful.

German writer Marc Elsberg has penned the ultimate nightmare scenario thriller. Now just imagine the whole of Europe’s power supply being taken down, not by a fault or a storm but something much worse. We have all experienced those times when the power has gone down but soon it comes back up and life goes on. In our busy lives it is so very easy to take everything we have at our fingertips for granted, such as electricity.

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