Debugging Paradise

Some bugs aren't in the code. Some are chasing you down the dock.

Jack Rourke didn't plan to vanish—he just needed to stop being found. After walking away from a high-flying tech job, a dangerous algorithm, and a boardroom full of liars, Jack flees to the Florida Keys. There, he trades his startup hoodie for sun-bleached shorts, docks an aging Bertram 46 named Code Freeze, and tells himself he's retired.

But paradise has bugs of its own.

When a battered sat phone turns up mysteriously on his boat, Jack is pulled into a current of cartel smugglers, federal interest, and someone using his past to bait a trap. Alongside a sarcastic marina operator, a wary local woman with a clipboard full of secrets, and the cryptic signals of his own trading bot, Jack must figure out who's hunting him—and why they left a breadcrumb trail straight to his slip.

Tense, wry, and richly atmospheric, Debugging Paradise is the gripping first novel in the Jack Rourke series. For fans of beach noir, slow-burn tech thrillers, and heroes who know how to fix bilge pumps and hack signals.