How long does it take to read Blackout?
Morgen ist es zu spät
Marc Elsberg
Blackout by Marc Elsberg takes about 10 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 49 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 590 pages, about 162,250 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect himself. With the United States now also at risk, Piero goes on the run with Lauren Shannon, a young American CNN reporter based in Paris, desperate to uncover who is behind the attacks. After all, the power doesn't just keep the lights on--it keeps us alive.
Subjects: Computer crimes, Electric power failures, Investigation, Hackers, Fiction, Fiction, suspense
