Giga Trouble: A cybercrime novel

Giga Trouble: A cybercrime novel

In a time of global uncertainty, a terrifying secret lurks in the cyber realm. In early 2020, as a global pandemic begins to cause turmoil around the world, Michele Morales has come to the conclusion that her employer, a global security firm, is likely behind a digital crime scheme. Her unease deepens when she and her co-workers are forced to board the company’s huge yacht. After a few hours of watching lines of co-workers taken behind closed doors and then returning under the influence of some mind-altering substance, she knows the worst is yet to come. As the yacht leaves the dock and heads toward the open sea, Michele escapes, propelling herself into a shadowy world of secrets, betrayal, and escalating danger. Is the real danger coming from her employer’s agents, or is there something far more sinister at play, lurking in the unseen world of cyberspace? Every second counts as Michele unravels a conspiracy that could shatter everything she thought she knew about her company, her colleagues, and herself. From Miami to Havana, to the Bahamian isles and Washington D.C., they face attacks by those behind the criminal enterprise but also their own government. Michele and her partners must uncover the truth, decide whom to trust and side-step a threat that could shake the foundations of international security. “A swift, outlandish adventure both on and off the water that keeps the reader guessing”. Kirkus Review Michael A. Pyle, born in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1953, holds degrees in English, Linguistics, and Law from the University of Florida, where he also was an Associate Professor of English as a Second Language. After over 40 years practicing law—mostly with a firm he founded—Pyle recently retired to focus on his passion for fiction writing. He began writing his first novel, White Sugar, Brown Sugar , at age nineteen but didn't publish it until 2012 at age fifty-nine. This historical novel explores racism, addiction, and recovery in mid-20th-century Florida. It was named a finalist for the American Legacy Book Awards in Inspirational Fiction (2024). The Wall Street Journal's "Readers' Choice: The Best Books of 2013" voted it #2. White Sugar, Brown Sugar was reprinted through Amazon in October 2025, so that is the latest version. Pyle began Cuban Roots twenty years ago, drawing on accounts from people who left Cuba in the 1960s. When the U.S. first allowed family visits to Cuba in 2010, he began traveling and continued for quite a few years, visiting museums and libraries across the island and exploring historical sites of wars, battles, and imprisonment. He met Cuban history graduate students, where he was presented different versions than he’d learned before. Pyle presented Cuban Roots twice at the Instituto de Historia de Cuba in Havana. Cuban Roots examines contrasting perspectives between Cubans who remained on the island and those who fled, shaped by age, timing of departure, and family political involvement. This research partly inspired the Cuban setting in Giga Trouble . Giga Trouble follows characters from Pyle's first two novels. White Sugar, Brown Sugar features David "Jude" Armstrong and Roosevelt "Red" Harris, whose now-grown children—Jude's son Mark and daughter Kim, and Roosevelt's son Tad—are major characters in Giga Trouble , alongside their fathers. Cuban Roots centers on Luis Morales, whose grandchildren Michele and Miguel (children of Franklin Morales) also play major roles, along with their father. You don't need to read the earlier books to follow Giga Trouble , but they provide rich backstory if you're interested in the families' histories. "GIGA TROUBLE : A modern tech thriller about a secretive company and its malicious intentions from author Pyle. The year is 2020. Michele Morales works for an international company called Giga-BATS. Rather unexpectedly, when Michele and her colleagues show up for work one day, they are told they are having a company meeting offsite; the meeting is to take place on the company yacht Giga Blue. This is Miami, so yachts are commonplace, but a surprise compulsory company meeting on a boat is unprecedented—Michele is concerned. As the yacht sets sail, she jumps ship and is picked up by a small speedboat. Soon, she is in contact with her father, an attorney named Franklin Morales. Franklin agrees that the whole thing is highly suspicious. Meanwhile, back on Giga Blue, Michele's friends Kim and Tad are being forced to participate in nefarious internet schemes, "using private information that the company had acquired for inappropriate purposes." It occurs to Tad that "All he could do was pray that" somehow, he'd "find a way out of this labyrinth of lies and corruption before it consumed him entirely." The story's premise is bizarre; a company kidnapping staff and forcing them to work on things like malware feels over-the-top. Nevertheless, readers will be intrigued to discover where this is all going, particularly as events move t