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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.
Published in German in 2012, it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide.''Blackout'' (Marc Elsberg)
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.power outage
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due to a
cyberattack
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. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with
intelligence
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and
computer security
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petrol
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, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no
cash machine
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s working,
nuclear disaster
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s, etc. A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. 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.
Film adaptation
The novel is currently being adapted into a miniseries starring
Moritz Bleibtreu
Moritz Johann Bleibtreu (; was born in Munich, Munich, Germany on August 13, 1971. He has worked over the years as a film actor, voice actor, and film director. Bleibtreu has been a successful actor in many movies such as ''Run Lola Run, Das Exp ...
, directed by Oliver Rihs and Lancelot von Naso and is scheduled to begin filming in fall 2020.
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Societal collapse
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