In the middle of the holiday season, the internet collapses across Europe. Planes can no longer land, doctors can no longer operate, and traffic descends into chaos. Soon, all communication channels are cut off. The whole of Europe is in a state of emergency, people are panicking, and supplies are collapsing. Nelson Carius, an investigator with the German foreign intelligence service BND, suspects a highly complex computer virus is behind the internet outages. A trail leads him to IT expert Daniel Faber from Munich, an upstanding family man. While the whole country struggles against the chaos, Daniel must not only save his family, but also prove his innocence…
When fiction meets reality: Harlander creates a scenario that experts consider highly probable: a total Internet failure that would bring our civilization to its knees.