FAQ

Questions about Threshold

The things readers tend to ask about Threshold, Book One of The Cascade Series. If yours isn't here, email me and I'll answer it.

What is Threshold about?

A geothermal plant on the edge of the Icelandic highlands loses power, water, and communications inside eleven minutes. Twelve people die. The company files it as an equipment malfunction. The geologists blame the ground. Dr. Nora Vasik gets the call to work out what actually happened, and finds a cascade: a failure that ran clean through the plant's automated control software in a way the people who built it had promised was impossible. She can show how it happened. The part she can't shake is that she has seen the shape of it before.

Is Threshold like Daniel Suarez or Michael Crichton?

If those are your authors, yes. Suarez writes about software and machines following their own logic until it turns dangerous. Crichton built whole novels around a technology getting away from the people who made it. Threshold lives in that space. There is no mastermind and no rogue intelligence. The thing that kills people is a system doing exactly what it was designed to do. If you want the longer version, I put together a reading guide for books in this vein.

What is a technothriller?

It's a thriller where the technology is the engine, not the scenery. The suspense comes from how a real or believable system behaves once it's pushed too hard. Threshold is one of these. The subject is infrastructure, automation, and the way a small fault spreads until it's too big to stop.

How many books are in The Cascade Series?

Five, all following Nora Vasik as she's brought in to explain disasters that weren't supposed to be able to happen. Threshold is the first.

What order should I read The Cascade Series in?

Begin with Threshold. I'm writing them to be read in order, but each case closes on its own, so you won't be lost if you come in later.

When does Threshold come out, and in what formats?

Threshold goes on sale 12 January 2027 in ebook, paperback, and hardcover. An audiobook will follow.

Who is Dr. Nora Vasik?

She's the one they call after the fact. An independent analyst who reconstructs how complex systems fail, usually when nobody else can. She's very good at seeing where something will break, and she carries a failure she saw coming and couldn't stop, which is its own kind of weight.

Can I read a sample first?

Yes. The whole prologue is free. Put in your email and it lands in your inbox as a PDF and an e-reader file. You don't have to buy anything.

Where can I buy Threshold?

The buy links go live on launch day, 12 January 2027. Get on the reader list and you'll have them first, along with the cover reveal and a shot at an advance copy.

Is the technology in Threshold real?

The plants and the specific accidents are made up. The way they fail is not. I spent years writing and fixing software in places where a mistake cost real money or worse: trading floors, hospitals, banks, factory lines. That's where the failures in the book come from.