Resultados para "BlackOut" en Narrativa literaria

Als die ersten Wissenschaftler vor 200 Jahren begannen, das Magnetfeld der Erde zu vermessen, ahnte niemand, dass ihre Zahlen einmal zu den wichtigsten Daten der Menschheitsgeschichte gehören würden. Doch tief im All erwachte die Sonne. Sie schleuderte gewaltige Wolken aus geladenen Teilchen...

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykjavik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person's life hangs in the balance. Dark, terrifying and complex, Blackout is an exceptional atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland's finest crime writers.

British M16 Agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into chaos. Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him.