TY - BOOK AU - Elsberg,Marc TI - Blackout : a novel SN - 9781492654414 AV - PT2705.L73 B5313 2017 U1 - 833/.92 23 KW - Computer crimes KW - Investigation KW - Europe KW - Fiction KW - Hackers KW - Electric power failures KW - fast KW - Suspense KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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. 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 ER -