Résultats pour "BlackOut" dans Action et aventure

For nurse Sarah Mitchell, it was just the end of another brutal shift. For survivalist Jake Cooper, it was the day he’d been preparing for his entire life. When a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse erases a century of progress, the neighbors are thrown into a world without power, without rules, without hope. While the unprepared descend into chaos, the organized and ruthless rise to build empires from the ashes. A warlord named Marcus begins to consolidate power, hunting for those with the skills to rebuild his new world—or die resisting. At the top of his list: a medic named Sarah.

The final book in the postapocalyptic Breakers series.

When half-human Cal Leandros wakes up on a beach littered with the slaughtered remains if a variety of hideous creatures, he's not that concerned. In fact, he can't remember anything - including who he is. And that's just the way his deadly enemies like it.

A counter-terrorism operative shows up tortured to death. An elderly prof goes missing. An eco-cult is recruiting at a weekend concert for young people at Battersea Power Station. A teenage felon's got to make a simple swap: some photos for his freedom. Only he's trapped inside Battersea Power Station. No swap. No way he can tell anyone about it. And the dawning horror that this time the missing and the dead will bring England to its knees.

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.

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.

Sarah Mitchell barely made it home—but home is no longer safe. As New York plunges deeper into chaos, the streets outside are ruled by gangs, desperate survivors, and those willing to kill for power. The ruthless warlord who seized control of the city’s underworld isn’t done yet, and now he has Sarah in his sights. With food running low and the first brutal night behind them, Sarah and her survivalist neighbor, Jake Cooper, must prepare for what’s coming. When a simple rescue mission turns deadly, Sarah faces a horrifying truth: the darkness isn’t just outside—it’s spreading everywhere.

Sarah Mitchell thought she'd left combat behind in Afghanistan. Now an ER nurse and guardian to her young nephew, she's rebuilt a life far from the disasters and split-second decisions of her military past. But when an EMP pulse fries every electronic device in the city, Sarah's peaceful world crumbles. As civilization breaks down, Sarah must navigate four miles of increasingly dangerous streets to reach her nephew. But she's not the only one moving through the chaos. A gang leader sees opportunity in the darkness and begins to seize control—taking what he wants, crushing anyone who resists.

When Diana Callan was beaten to death, all the evidence suggested that her husband was the killer. After returning from Afghanistan, former Green Beret Christopher Callan had developed violent blackouts during which he could remember nothing. But another suspect was in the frame, and if Chris could just get enough evidence to prove his own innocence, the real murderer could be punished. Trouble was, that was going to be easier said than done...especially when Chris found himself involved with the girlfriend of a psychotic hoodlum.

Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.

In the heart of a city swallowed by darkness, Martha Marshall is the last glimmer of hope – but can she navigate through anarchy, winter’s chill, and marauding raiders to sanctuary.

Lia’s meeting was on the 60th floor, in a corner office, with a view of Chicago that took her breath away. When the power went off, her gut told her something horrible was happening. Then she saw the plane heading for the building. She had to get out.

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.

Colin, a nomadic tech-head living in the Australian outback, finds himself recruited by an underground network that defies global powers who shut down the internet with the aim of resetting the global trading system. This fast-paced adventure sees Colin uncover US state secrets, as well as the startling truth about his past.

The world is in the throes of economic decay and at the mercy of terrorists. Across this post-apocalyptic landscape marches one extraordinary soldier and his band of brothers. In a novel as disturbingly plausible as it is powerfully gripping, they are headed into a battle in which they will have to come to grips with the power of technology and the true price of freedom.

It's the hottest summer on record and New York City has gone dark. Communications go down, EMS, Police and The Fire Department are flying deaf and blind. Subways halt in tunnels, traffic and street lights are out! Tempers grow short, and people panic at the thought of another terrorist attack... Brian, Mel, Brooklyn, and the rest find themselves in the middle of it. "Like the man said," said Mel, "Hell is one floor up". Based on Actual EMS accounts of the 2003 East Coast Blackout.