An Italian hacker, Piero Manzano, discovers that smart meters were tampered with before the blackout, which signals sinister motives and eliminates technical fault as the reason behind the failure. This conspiracy thriller relies on multiple narrative threads that eventually come together in an action-packed finale. Who is behind this disruption and what are their reasons? A sudden Europe-wide power outage cripples public life, with an entire continent been forced into an impasse. In Blackout, Marc Elsberg contemplates this question. But what happens when you’re not offered a choice? Electricity has become such an indispensable element of modern life that most civilized societies can’t fathom functioning without it. After all, what is life without internet, telly and a whole slew of gadgets and gizmos we’re so dependent on. We have become so reliant on electricity that the word blackout in itself conjures up images of panic, uncertainty and fear.
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