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Mike Trigg

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in Louisville, KY, The United States

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Thriller, Fiction, Contemporary

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Mike Trigg was born in Kentucky and raised in Wisconsin. Prior to becoming an author, he was an executive, founder, and investor in dozens of technology start-up companies for over 25 years.

Trigg’s debut novel, the Silicon Valley corporate thriller BIT FLIP, received widespread critical acclaim, with 5-star reviews from Foreword, IndieReader, and the Manhattan Book Review and lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as a “twisty, acerbic corporate thriller.”

His second novel, BURNER, is a “searing, all-too-believable novel” (BookLife Reviews, Editor’s Pick) and “fascinating thriller in which an online movement swallows up the person who started it.” (Foreword Clarion Reviews). Described as “a cautionary tale for the digital age” by IndieReader ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 235 ratings · 95 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bit Flip 3.65 avg rating — 118 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burner 3.92 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outage: A Novel 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Anxieties of Outage Part II: Politics

As I wrote about in Part I of this series, the predominant fear explored in my new thriller, Outage, is technology and our inherent dependence on it—even as technology, specifically AI, seems like an increasing threat to humanity. But the second major societal anxiety examined in the book is politics.

Before joining the tech industry, I started my career in Washington D.C. (the setting of Outage)

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I'm so excited for people to read my latest thriller, Outage. The subject matter couldn't be more timely. I hope you'll add it to your Goodreads Want to Read list. ...more
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Mike Trigg and 3 other people liked Victoria Brinius's review of Outage: A Novel: "What is worse, loosing power or loosing the internet? In todays society everything is connected to the internet. With the addition of AI the internet is all around us. This is all back story that I thought of, before I started reading. I can not imag" Read more of this review »
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Mike Trigg and 1 other person liked James Kinsley's review of Outage: A Novel: "One of the potential pitfalls for the tech-thriller is to overlook the human element needed to engage the reader; often the implied jeopardy of the worldwide threat is treated as if it's enough of a draw that the author doesn't feel the need to embue" Read more of this review »
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