WHAT IF THE MACHINES WENT SILENT?
BRILLIANT… –WIRED Magazine on Cyber series
Million-copy international bestseller now in film development with 20th Century Fox.
Mike Mitchell is an average New Yorker struggling to keep his family together when a string of disasters shreds the bustling city around them. In the space of hours, the Internet and communication networks go down as a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world.
Days go by without contact to the outside world. Then weeks.
In the chaos, conspiracy theories rage about a foreign cyberattack. Is it war? Was it the North Koreans? The Russians? The Chinese? Might this be the first shockwave of a global shift in power? But even these questions become unimportant as Mike and his family struggle for survival in the wintry tomb of a doomed New York.
A new future war unleashed. An event that will forever change the world.From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of CyberStorm comes a riveting new masterpiece.
BRILLIANT… WIRED Magazine on Cyber series
Six years after the events of CyberStorm, Mike Mitchell is reunited with his old friends Damon and Chuck in New Orleans. He brings his son Luke, now eight years old, while his wife Lauren attends a business meeting in Hong Kong.
As soon as they arrive, simmering tensions on the Indian subcontinent explode. One after the other, missiles are launches that destroy satellites in orbit. Russia and China threaten America not to intervene. Everything seems like it will be fine, until…
Suddenly, GPS signal goes out. Borders are closed. Communications go down.
Thousands of planes are stranded in the air as Mike discovers that his wife Lauren took an overnight flight from China to Washington that morning. With satellites falling from the sky and rolling blackouts sweeping the nation, Mike must fight his way across the country in a desperate race against the clock to save his family.
But this is only the beginning as the shocking truth comes out, in a new generation of warfare that will change the world forever…
Couldn’t put it down…not only a great thriller, but a wakeup call. Brent Watkins, FBI Special Agent (retired)