Marc Elsberg is a former creative director in advertising. His debut thriller the high-concept
disaster thriller BLACKOUT became a bestseller and one of the most successful thrillers of its
kind in Germany. He has also given a TEDx talk on the subject of the horrors of an electrical
grid failure. BLACKOUT and his follow-up CODE ZERO were selected as Scientific Book of the
Year in Germany. BLACKOUT was named Thriller of the Month by the Times. His latest bestselling
thriller GREED contains cutting-edge research on the economy. He lives in Vienna Austria.
