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.
