Newsflesh · Book 5

Blackout

by Mira Grant

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
659
ISBN-13
9780316081078
Type
novel

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Cover of Blackout

About this book

Blackout closes out the core Newsflesh trilogy in 2012 at 659 pages, following Countdown in the publication order. Mira Grant calls it a conspiracy thriller with zombies, bringing the Mason siblings' investigation into the truth behind the outbreak to its devastating conclusion.

Its place in Newsflesh

Blackout is book 5 in the Newsflesh series. It follows Countdown. It is followed by San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats. See the full Newsflesh reading order.

Twenty-some years after two well-meaning cures -- one for cancer, one for the common cold -- combined to accidentally create a virus that reanimates the dead, humanity has adapted. Blogging, not broadcast news, is the trusted press, since bloggers proved they'd report the truth about the outbreak when traditional media wouldn't. Feed opens Newsflesh with bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason, adoptive siblings running a news team, landing the assignment of a lifetime covering a presidential campaign in a world where…

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