In TOTAL POWER, Mitch Rapp gets his lights knocked out, quite literally, when a villain whose intelligence is almost as big as his ego succeeds in taking out the entire US power grid with the aid of a terrorist group. The impact of the hit is such that the power may stay down for a very long time.

Thriller books usually end before the bomb goes off, or the catastrophe is avoided at the last minute due to the hero’s deeds. TOTAL POWER stands out because the terrorists manage to take down the grid and the reader gets to see the fallout. This time around, Rapp has to operate in a country plunged into darkness and full of desperate people and in which many of the things he relies on—like communications, transportation, or even food and water supply—are not available.

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