05243cam a2200457 4500 294797943 TxAuBib 20170610120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781492654421 1492654426 B01MYDPTLR Amazon 127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3144009 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Elsberg, Marc. Blackout [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Sourcebooks, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1011kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1011kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. father?s day books. father?s day gifts. Contemporary. Terrorism. HTML:<p>June 5, 2017<br /> Europe is plunged into darkness, followed by further disasters, in Elsberg’s U.S. debut, an uneven thriller, which was a bestseller in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The blackout, which starts in Italy and is caused by computer hackers with vague<br /> dreams of disrupting the world order, quickly spreads north. Elsberg does a good job capturing how life could break down when we lose our main power source. 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. The plot is told largely through vignettes of various groups of people and their individual struggles. Central among the book’s characters are former hacker and activist Piero Manzano and CNN reporter Lauren Shannon. 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. The plot’s tension suffers, however, because so little of the story is devoted to the culprits behind the disaster and their intentions. 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. Readers might expect more pop after an entire continent is brought to its knees. <em>Agent: Helen Edwards, Transworld Publishers.</em></p>. Publisher's Weekly. HTML:<p>"Fast, tense, thrilling — and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended." <strong>—Lee Child</strong><strong>, #1</strong> New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series</p> <p><strong>This is no accident.<br /> This is no act of God.<br /> This is Blackout.</strong></p> <p><strong>A terrifyingly plausible million-copy selling debut disaster thriller.</strong></p> <p>When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere.<br /> A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on—it keeps us alive.<br /></p>. HTML:"<i>Blackout</i> is truly terrifying in its all-too-realistic premise. The action jumps from country to country as the blackout spreads, racing towards an ending which is absolutely lights-out.". Sandra Block, ITW Thriller Award finalist and author of Little Black Lies and The Girl Without a Name. "Marc Elsberg's brilliantly written techno-thriller vividly shows how terrorists, instead of using guns and bombs, can sit at a keyboard and use computer code to bring the world to its knees.". Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves. HTML:"...intriguing and authentic, <i>Blackout</i> crackles with tension.". Grant Blackwood, New York Times bestselling author. "lsberg delivers a thrilling read and sucks readers into a mind-boggling, all too scary world.". Library Journal. Thriller. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-06-09 23:00:02. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=127ee2ae-be34-4358-8f4f-a6aa3683ffd0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)