Publication Date: October 20, 2026
For fans of Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me and William R. Forstchen’s One Second After comes a riveting thriller about an internet blackout that leads one woman into a web of lies and conspiracies and in her pursuit for answers.
Rachel Farrell is working from home in suburban Virginia when the internet goes out. Juggling clients, two restless teenagers, and dinner logistics with her husband, Caleb, a DC lobbyist, she assumes it’s just a routine inconvenience.
Then she finds his note, warning they are in danger and not to trust anyone.
When FBI agents show up looking for Caleb, Rachel realizes something far more sinister is underway: a nationwide internet and phone outage, and Caleb’s biggest client―a powerful Chinese semiconductor company―is at the center of suspicion.
As the night wears on with no word from Caleb, Rachel’s unease shifts into something darker. The man she has been married to for two decades may not be who she thought he was. Fearing for their safety, Rachel and her children embark on a harrowing cross-country journey to find Caleb and hear his explanation. But the more she learns, the more she suspects he may be in on the plot.
Following the clues to a remote compound in South Dakota, Rachel begins to piece together the truth about her husband, his business dealings, and a conspiracy that reaches far beyond anything she ever imagined.
In the end, Rachel has no choice but to uncover the real culprit behind the outage before it costs her everything.
After two decades of marriage, Rachel Farrell thinks she knows her husband, Caleb. Between a nationwide cyberattack and a visit from the FBI, that trust starts to fray.
Author Mike Trigg serves up a timely thriller in Outage. How much does Caleb know about the attack? Was he actually involved?
The author weaves a fantastic plot that forces Rachel and her teenage son and daughter to travel across the country in search of answers. Hounded by danger, they try to determine why Caleb would have left a note warning not to trust anyone.
To unravel the conspiracy, Rachel must take on an adversary willing to commit treason in an effort to reach the pinnacle point between artificial and human intelligence.
Outage takes readers on a thrill ride from start to finish as competing agendas threaten to destroy the Farrell family.
A veteran of Silicon Valley, Mike Trigg writes contemporary thrillers that explore technology’s impact on modern life. Outage is his third novel. His first, Bit Flip, was lauded as a “twisty, acerbic corporate thriller” by the San Francisco Chronicle. His second, Burner, was praised as “a cautionary tale for the digital age” by IndieReader. His work has been featured in Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Literary Hub. Born in Kentucky and raised in Wisconsin, Trigg earned a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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