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Why Tech Crime Thrillers?

10/2/2013

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 What is more thrilling to you; reading about how a knife was thrust through a gullet, or discovering how to make $8 billion tax-free? 
There are many books about the variations of murder, solving them and the resulting trials. I always longed to read about the world of high tech. Technology is disruptive, variables change daily and fortunes are waiting.
For the last thirty-five years, I was always on my way to visit another client or business partner. Each visit meant sitting in airports and airplanes. I found a good novel always made the trip a little shorter. 
I would search in vain for a good tech crime thriller. Instead, I found enjoyment in the Legal thrillers by John Grisham, Medical by Robin Cook and Sci-Fi Tech by Michael Crichton. I also erased the hours with novels by Ken Follett, Lee Child, Dan Brown, Frederick Forsythe, Jack Higgins and Daniel Silva among others.
I have always lived with the notion that if one cannot find what they are searching for, they should consider creating it. In the fast paced world of technology, change is a constant and the potential for crimes is just another business option. 
I believe that good tech crime fiction should be more than “who done it.” It should tackle big issues. My first novel is The Start-up. It will follow a startup from the initial VC pitch, to achieving growth and then staging itself to be sold for $8 billion. It also follows an FBI investigation into possible fraud. The setting is the switch from PCs to mobile devices. The Start-up questions venture capital, the dilemma’s facing directors of fading tech firms and the eternal conundrum of choosing between love and money.
I hope you enjoy reading about the possibilities of tech crime as much as I enjoy writing it.

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