After all, it's not just electricity at stake. The important fact to take away from Blackout is that we, all countries, need to safe guard our power plants. In this scenario the terrorists are well educated, well connected and wealthy, which wouldn't necessarily always be the case.

While trying to help Manzano becomes the prime suspect and ends up having to run from authorities as he still tries to find the answers.This is not a techno-thriller as much as it is a semi-realistic scenario of what would happen if the power grids failed due to the actions of a terrorist group. As suspicions fly and answers are not evident, the grid in the USA goes down, and the disaster is becoming worldwide. As Manzano battles the authorities to get them to listen to him, Lauren Shannon, an American CNN camera operator/reporter follows the story. This was originally published in Germany in 2012.When the power grid starts to go down, station by station, Piero Manzano, a former hacker and activist, figures out what may have caused the collapse.

Read moreīlackout by Marc Elsberg is a recommended novel about the power grid going out across Europe. I think if a book keeps you entertained for that long, definitely a good buy!Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark for approving my request and to Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. It was definitely worth my 8 or 9 hours it took to read it. He's shot, put in prison, chased and never given a moments rest.This book was so full of action and I was certainly entertained and very glad that I believed the hype and requested this book. This poor man is running, he's not safe anywhere. And, the terrorists are not happy that he is figuring things out.

Of course, the governments think he is part of the scheme and are after him. Truly, eye opening.Then you have the action, and I do mean action - a lot of it, of the governments and one ex-hacker who thinks like the terrorists and starts to figure things out. Food supplies, toilet backups due to sewers drying out, meat supplies short for years because of all the deaths of the livestock, and nuclear plants overheating causing widespread damage that will be a factor for decades. The shortage of things that you wouldn't even think about happens.

The author provides you a first hand look at what that actually means.

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