It sits a bit funny after the sheer volume of information given on every other move.Īn entertaining diversion all around, it’s the right pacing to bring along on your summer vacation.
My only complaint is at the book’s end, we have a last minute gambit by the terrorists that gets foiled by the plucky protagonists, but unlike the rest of the book the details aren’t exposed. He’s gotten fairly detailed on how these systems actually work, and while some might find it a little over their head, I feel it adds to the understanding of what’s going on–and the plausibility of each successive catastrophe. Elsberg jumps around showing the action from several different perspectives much in the same way a film of that type would. Marc Elsberg Blackout: The addictive international bestselling disaster thriller Kindle Edition by Marc Elsberg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 487 ratings Kindle 6.15 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. As long as she can stick with Manzano, she’ll be right in the middle of the action.īlackout was an interesting techno-disaster thriller, and it reads kind of like a disaster movie. Lauren Shannon is an American reporter who’s gotten used to playing second fiddle, and she sees the Europe-wide power catastrophe as an opportunity. He ends up traveling to some interesting places, and when the hackers find out he’s put Europol on to them, he needs taken off the board. What he sees troubles him enough to talk to someone in charge of the inquiry. When the power suddenly goes out all over Europe, he uses those skills to hack into his smart meter find out what the hell is going on. Piero Manzano used to be a hacker, but after a brush with the law, he became a consultant.
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