The Last Lineman

At 11:00 p.m. on an ordinary Tuesday, the lights go out from Boston to Washington, and they don't come back. Phones, cars, hospitals, the subway: everything electronic dies in a single pulse. Frankie Vallone, 62, is a widower in Bensonhurst who still talks to his late wife's photograph over morning coffee. He retired after 28 years as a Con Ed lineman, and he worked the cables at Ground Zero in 2001. Now he may be the last man alive who knows the old iron under New York: the hand-thrown switches and the forgotten tunnels that no computer can reach. As the military hunts a ruthless drone cell and warns that a second, nationwide strike is ten days away, suspicion falls on a hothead from Staten Island. Frankie starts to fear the truth is closer to home. With his children cut off across the water and his neighbors pulling together the way New York did after 9/11, Frankie has one more job to do. The Last Lineman is a pulse-pounding thriller about courage, betrayal, faith, and the ordinary heroes who keep the lights on. When the lights went out, Brooklyn didn't.