The authorities dont believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect. The novel is currently being adapted into a miniseries starring Moritz Bleibtreu, directed by Oliver Rihs and Lancelot von Naso and is scheduled to begin filming in fall 2020. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. 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. A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc.
The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. The English version was published in 2017. Published in German in 2012, as of 2016 it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide.
978-1784161897 (first edition in English)īlackout: 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".
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