Agent: Helen Edwards, Transworld Publishers. Readers might expect more pop after an entire continent is brought to its knees. The story’s high point is a one-page shoving match toward the end when one of the hackers is wrestled to the ground and taken into custody. The plot’s tension suffers, however, because so little of the story is devoted to the culprits behind the disaster and their intentions. Together, Piero and Lauren try to find the cause of the power loss, though for a while the authorities suspect that they are involved themselves. Central among the book’s characters are former hacker and activist Piero Manzano and CNN reporter Lauren Shannon. Von Bild der Wissenschaft zum spannendsten Wissensbuch des Jahres 2012 gekrt Elsberg flicht vier Handlungsfden zu einem atemberaubenden Spannungsstrang zusammen. The plot is told largely through vignettes of various groups of people and their individual struggles. Within days, food riots erupt in major cities, all forms of transportation and communication cease, nuclear power plants leak radiation, and some governments fall to military coups. Elsberg does a good job capturing how life could break down when we lose our main power source. The blackout, which starts in Italy and is caused by computer hackers with vagueĭreams of disrupting the world order, quickly spreads north. debut, an uneven thriller, which was a bestseller in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Europe is plunged into darkness, followed by further disasters, in Elsberg’s U.S.
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