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We're too incompetent or uncaring to get them water? But in the case of Blackout by Austrian Marc Elsberg, there was a good reason for the head of Germany’s Network Agency (the grid regulator, a bit like FERC in the US) to do so in 2012: Elsberg’s book describes a Europe-wide blackout.Ĭases of cholera now being reported in Puerto Rico. It’s not often that a novel gets presented by a bureaucrat.

The devastation from the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean, which is becoming increasingly vulnerable to disruption ( Public Domain).

Akriti Bhargava, Karla Martínez Toral and Aradhna Tandon.

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Plunged into darkness, people are freezing. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electricity grids collapse. And not just on this street - every light in the city is dead. Manzano is thrown from his Alfa as cars pile up.

Can he bring down a major terrorist network before it's too late? ************************ 'Part Dan Brown-style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut-a bestseller in Germany-will get people talking' - Booklist US A cold night in Milan, Piero Manzano wants to get home. But he is also the only man capable of finding the real attackers. Former hacker and activist Manzano becomes a prime suspect.

A cold night in Milan, Piero Manzano wants to get home. Highly recommended' LEE CHILD 'A dazzling debut' Marcel Berlins, The Times THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER PUBLISHED IN 15 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE A 21ST-CENTURY HIGH-CONCEPT DISASTER THRILLER *************************************** Tomorrow will be too late. 'Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely- this will happen one day.