SYSTEM FAILURE

  • 70,000 copies sold!
  • When fiction meets reality: Harlander sketches out a scenario that experts believe to be very likely within the next few years – a total internet blackout. 
  • Harlander’s debut 42 °C spent months in the top 10 of the SPIEGEL bestseller list!
  • “42 °C comes across as a thriller based on hard facts.” Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • “Informative like a work of non-fiction, written like a screenplay: this story will definitely be made into a film.” Stern
  • Rights have been sold to France (HC éditions).

Anyone who remembers the world before the internet knows that a life without the internet is possible. Or is it?

On a hot day in August, in several European cities, the internet goes down from one second to the next. The authorities and businesses can no longer access their data, planes can no longer land, doctors can no longer operate because the state-of-the-art equipment is on the blink, communication has completely broken down. Special investigator Nelson Carius from the Federal Intelligence Service suspects a highly complex virus is behind the internet outages, which are paralysing more and more parts of Europe each day. The state of emergency throws people into panic, the situation threatens to completely derail. One lead takes investigator Carius to a flat in the north of Munich. This is where Daniel Faber, an IT expert, lives with his family and no longer understands the world. While the entire country sinks into chaos, Daniel not only has to save his family, but also prove his innocence …

 

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Polaris
  • Release: 20.07.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00661-6
  • 496 Pages
  • Author: Wolf Harlander

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Wolf Harlander

Wolf Harlander was born in 1958 in Nuremberg and studied journalism, politics and political economics at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. After working as a trainee at a daily newspaper and completing an apprenticeship at the German School of Journalism he worked for daily newspapers, radio, television and as editor of the economic publications Capital and Wirtschaftswoche . Harlander received awards for his thriller 42 Grad , including the Stuttgart Crime Prize and the MIMI 2021, the public's choice award from the German Booksellers' Association. Since then, he has become known for his exciting thrillers that tackle important ecological and social themes. Today he lives in Munich as a writer.

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