Showing results for "Blackouts" in Literature & Fiction

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay―playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized―has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried.

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

Als Rémi's vriend spoorloos verdwijnt, begint een race tegen de klok. Hij moet de waarheid achterhalen en oude geheimen ontmaskeren om zijn vriend te redden. Deel 2 van 3.

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...

When the first scientists began measuring Earth's magnetic field 200 years ago, no one suspected that their figures would one day rank among the most important data in human history. But deep in space, the Sun stirred into action. It hurled massive clouds of charged particles into the solar...

Academy Award® winner Rami Malek stars in this apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwide, upending modern civilization. Season 2 picks up after Simon’s family escapes. Upon crossing paths with an old family friend, Wren (played by Aja Naomi King), recounts her experience getting out of Boston... but can she be trusted? What truths remain to be uncovered about the origins of this blackout? Produced by QCODE and Endeavor Content. Created by Scott Conroy. Season 1 stars and is executive produced by Rami ...

THE STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER FROM THE CELEBRATED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROW - COMING MARCH 2021. 'Taut and chilling - I was completely gripped' Anthony Horowitz 'A wonderfully compelling thriller, reeking of authenticity, and a terrific depiction of the human world...

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. 

John Milton a eu plusieurs vies : assassin, fugitif, justicier. Mais après des mois de sobriété durement gagnés, il a réussi à se remettre sur les rails… jusqu’à ce qu’un black-out dans une chambre d’hôtel à Manille vienne tout changer. Milton se réveille sans le moindre souvenir de la nuit précédente, avec une femme morte dans la pièce d’à côté et du sang sur les mains. Arrêté et jeté dans l’une des prisons les plus dangereuses d’Asie du Sud-Est, il comprend rapidement qu’il s’agit d’un coup monté. 

Londres 1942 : profitant du couvre-feu, un tueur hante les rues de la ville. En quelques jours, il assassine et mutile quatre femmes. Son modus operandi interpelle Scotland Yard et la presse, qui le surnomme aussitôt le Blackout Ripper. Les messages qu'il laisse sur les scènes de crime, conçus comme des indices codés, imposent bientôt aux enquêteurs une piste inquiétante : le criminel semble s'inspirer des leçons du mage noir Aleister Crowley et de son manuscrit démoniaque, "Le Livre de la Loi".

Don’t miss the new, totally addictive psychological thriller from Sarah Goodwin, with bombshell twists that will leave you stunned. Fans of The Sanatorium, The Paris Apartment and One of the Girls will be hooked from the very first page. You can't outrun the past… Summer, 2022. When Meg and...

Berlino, dicembre 1939. Mentre la Germania entra in guerra, i nazisti stringono la loro morsa sulla popolazione. La paranoia nella capitale è intensificata da un rigido blackout che ogni notte, al tramonto del cupo sole invernale, fa sprofondare la città in un'oscurità opprimente. Quando una giovane donna viene trovata brutalmente assassinata, l'ispettore Horst Schenke riceve subito pressioni per risolvere il caso. Trattato con sospetto dai suoi stessi superiori per la mancata adesione al partito nazista, Schenke cammina su una lastra di ghiaccio molto sottile.

Young counterterrorist cop Sam Archer arrives for work at the Armed Response Unit expecting a quiet day. But unbeknownst to him, a storm is coming. Three men have already been killed that morning. One committed suicide by the River Thames. Another was strangled in his car in Washington, DC. And the third was shot in the face in his high-rise New York apartment as he slept. The deaths seem random, thousands of miles apart. But they are all connected - by a shocking event 15 years ago.

Zuerst ging das Licht in Italien aus. Dann brechen in ganz Europa die Stromnetze zusammen, die Kraftwerke schalten sich ab. Der totale Blackout...

The final book in the postapocalyptic Breakers series.

Cut loose from the CIA after a devastating injury, Ember Hendryx only wants one thing—to live long enough to find her missing sister. The clock is running down. She’s got the skills to do this, but she’ll need the one thing she can’t do for herself if she’s going to succeed. With no leads and little idea what her sister was into, this just might take everything she’s got. And give her a future she can’t even dream of.

In a world where shadows whisper secrets and reality blurs with illusion, "Blackout Junction" invites you to explore the depths of the human psyche through captivating audio dramas. This psychological thriller podcast delves into the eerie and the unknown, weaving together rich narratives that challenge perception and provoke thought. Join us as we journey through episodes like "The Fractured Echo," where the line between memory and reality becomes dangerously thin, and "Dark Reflections," which confronts the hidden fears lurking within us all. Each episode is meticulously crafted to immerse ...

En hedebølger forårsager en strømafbrydelse, der efterlader New York City i mørke. Og imens byen bliver kastet ud i kaos, opstår en helt ny form for elektricitet. Et første møde. Langvarige venskaber. Bitre ekskærester. Og måske begyndelsen på noget nyt ... Når lyset går ud, afslører mennesker deres hemmeligheder. Kærligheden blomstrer, venskaber forandres, og nye muligheder opstår.

Minutes after a Boeing 747 rises majestically into a Hong Kong sunset, a flash splits the darkening sky. The pilot - suddenly blinded and doubled over in pain - fumbles in the dark in a frantic effort to gain control as the huge jet shudders through its descent. Kat Bronsky, FBI agent and terrorism specialist, is assigned the hunt for a Challenger-class business jet seen nearby just before the incident.

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.