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Publisher Black Swan Published in English February 2017 Originally published 19 March 2012 Original language German Genre Thriller | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 2012 Pages 350 Page count 350 Subject Disaster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Blackout – Morgen ist es zu spät Awards Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2012 Similar Im Wald, The Judas Game, Og hun takkede guderne, Das Paket, The Truth Factory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackout - Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg.
Published in German in 2012, it has been translated in fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide. The English version will be published in February 2017.
To be realistic, the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.
Description
The novel starts with an electricity grids collapse across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster. The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc.
It is describes by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".
References
Blackout (Elsberg novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA