The novel is currently being adapted into a miniseries starring Moritz Bleibtreu, directed by Oliver Rihs and Lancelot von Naso and is scheduled to begin filming in fall 2020.

While doing so he himself becomes a hunted person as officials find suspicious e-mails sent from his laptop and think that he is involved. A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. A terrifyingly plausible, million-copy selling debut about an international blackout perpetrated by a hacker attack. The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc. The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials. The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. The English version was published in 2017.

Published in German in 2012, as of 2016 it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide. Marc Elsberg: official website for the science and technology thrillers, interviews and background information on the books, Blanvalet Verlag. Hopefully someone will create a better version of this book.978-1784161897 (first edition in English)īlackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as 'a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller'. IF you change the book and create new stories, then they better be good. The 2 children who stayed in the train (why?) and of course met a psycho, the people trapped in the amusement park. And to make things worse: they created NEW stories instead which are just ridiculous and pathetic. They also left crucial characters out of the film.

By Marc Elsberg Facebook It's simply an incredibly powerful and great book. And secondly, some shortcuts don't make sense at all. Fr mich immer noch surreal: Wie aus meinem Roman BLACKOUT eine. But for one: this is a series, so they would have had enough time to tell the story as it should have been told. This is a thought provoking debut thriller which bleakly and realistically depicts the meltdown of the world as we know it when a hacker attack instigates a. His gripping and meticulously researched thrillers Blackout, Zero, Helix and Greed won awards as the Scientific Book. I understand that movies have to make shortcuts. Reading it, I almost felt like watching a movie. A terrifyingly plausible, million-copy selling debut about an international blackout perpetrated by a hacker attack One night, the lights go out across. The actions and sequences were logical and made sense. A new fascinating vision of our potential future by SPIEGEL bestselling author Marc Elsberg. The characters and relationships were very well written and developed. I don't get it: the book had such a great story.

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