Why a Booktrail?
Tomorrow will be too late…
Blackout
Why a Booktrail?
Tomorrow will be too late…
What you need to know before your trail
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?
Locations
Reset- The Netherlands
- B: The Hague - Peace Palace
- Czech Republic
- D: Temelín Nuclear Power Station
Travel Guide
Travel the world via the most vulnerable spots of the electricity and energy grids:
Csech Republic – Temelin Nuclear Power plant
France – The Saint Laurent
Germany – Ratingen – Where the company Talafer is located
Russia – Chernobyl
And the political world too – veering from Brussels to the Hague and back again
The USA powerless to stop it and Germany where they have created a map showing all the areas affected by the blackout “You could hardly see the country underneath all the pins”
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
Well, this is a thriller which will stand out. Although published in Germany a few years ago, this is the first time it’s been translated in English and so readers across the English speaking world will be able to read it – well only by candlelight if the novel turns out to be true.
This sounds so plausible that it’s quite chilling to see the timeline of how power grids are affected and hacked from one country to another.How politicians fail to grasp what is going on and how people at first start to come together but then how quickly things fall apart..
There are so many locations in this novel as (by the flick of a lightswitch) we flick from one chapter to the next and one country to the next. On the fast paced trail of a hacker shutting off power supplies across the globe. It’s fast, furious and in the light of current world events, very timely indeed.
The story of how a real world apocalypse could actually happen read plausible and frighteningly easy. What really shines is the way people at first come together but how the ripple effect of a tragedy start to spread and affect people in very different ways. We’re all so reliant on electricity and power and people do desperate things when faced when they think they have nothing. Survival is everything as people are left quite literarily in the dark when governments across the globe fail to act.
There’s a point at which a character mentions that the film Die Hard 4 more than predicted the events of this book – Haven’t seen the movie so I don’t know but the scenario with the milking cows is enough to make me sh-udder (sorry)
An illuminating novel on our dependance on energy and how humanity, world order and more could literally be sniffed out at the flick of a switch
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Blackout
Author/Guide: Marc Elsberg Destination: Worldwide Departure Time: Well…..
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