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Andrew Updegrove

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in Philadelphia, PA, The United States

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My career as a fiction writer began when a line of interior dialogue occurred to me while walking my dog in the rain. That line turned into a character, and that character turned into the foundation for my first book. A second and a third followed (and then a fourth and a fifth, with the sixth on the way), based on the same character: an "everyman" cybersecurity specialist who is brilliant but socially challenged. Each book is a satirical thriller that highlights the risks of our continuing dependency on technology in general, and the Internet in particular. The exploits in the books have demonstrated a disturbing tendency to later actually happen in the real world.

When I'm not writing, I'm working with high tech clients, including those th ...more

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	The Alexandria Project (Tales of Adversego #1) 4.08 avg rating — 1,055 ratings — published 2011 — 7 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
	The Lafayette Campaign (Tales of Adversego #2) 4.11 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
	The Turing Test (Tales of Adversego #4) 4.27 avg rating — 181 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
	The Doodlebug War (Tales of Adversego #3) 4.29 avg rating — 143 ratings — 5 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
	The Blockchain Revolution (Tales of Adversego #5) 4.19 avg rating — 129 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
	The Argus Affair: a Tale of Duplicity and Diplomacy: 4.36 avg rating — 66 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
	Frank Adversego: The Alexandria Project / The Lafayette Campaign / The Doodlebug War (Tales of Adversego #1-3) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	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
	The Alexandria Project: A Tale of Treachery and Technology 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
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It’s taken longer to write than I had hoped, but at long last, Frank Adversego is riding again. The new title, #6 in the series, is The Argus Affair, a Tale of Duplicity and Diplomacy, As with each of the previous books, there’s a unique technology focus, and this time around that focus is on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, a/k/a LAWS (to their proponents) and Killer Robots (to their detractor

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