The Night the Power Stayed Off

di Bill Fleed (Autore)

Black Lantern Publishing, 2026

It starts as an inconvenience. A few blocks go dark. Traffic hesitates. Dispatchers start fielding overlapping calls. Then the pattern becomes impossible to ignore: this is no neighborhood blackout. Substations are failing, hospitals are shifting to generator power, trains are stranded underground, and Stockholm is being pushed toward a full-system collapse. Paramedic Sofia and her partner Ren move from crash scenes to cardiac emergencies to welfare calls, trying to stay ahead of a disaster that keeps widening. In the control room, engineers watch the grid unravel in real time and search for a restart path before the damage becomes irreversible. Underground, a metro driver must keep hundreds of trapped passengers calm in the dark. Across the city, officials, medical staff, and ordinary civilians confront the same brutal reality: modern life is only as stable as the systems nobody notices until they fail. Told across multiple perspectives and unfolding over a single freezing night, The Night the Power Stayed Off is a tense, realistic thriller about infrastructure, human fragility, and the people who keep going when everything else stops working.

• Autore: Bill Fleed
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Black Lantern Publishing
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798233879937