A Quiet Life

It was just a link in an email.

Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. One click, and suddenly the US is under marshal law and bombing Tehran.

Michael unknowingly triggered a cyberattack by Iranian hackers, which a belligerent President Davis uses as pretext for war against Iran. Michael blinks and he and his wife, Pam, are thrown into private prisons owned by the president, a multibillionaire tycoon. This ordinary couple suddenly must answer a harrowing question:  What do you do when the enemy of the state is you? And they find themselves cooperating with extraordinary partners, from right-wing militias to Iranian documentarians, as they work to clear their names and stop the global conflict that Michael set off with an unwitting click.

Written by a renowned cybersecurity attorney and a bestselling author, A Quiet Life is a cyberthriller for the times that we all live in, and how we can lose everything on the strength of a lie. And how once we start fighting back, we cannot stop.
 

William Cooper is a cybersecurity attorney and award-winning journalist. His writings have appeared in hundreds of publications around the world including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Toronto Star, and Jerusalem Post. Publishers Weekly calls his writings about American politics “a compelling rallying cry for democratic institutions under threat in America.” Visit him online at Will-Cooper.com.

Michael McKinley is a journalist, author, and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books, and his most recent, Willie: The Game Changing Story of the NHL’s First Black Player was named Top 20 Books of 2020 by the CBC, and nominated for a 2021 NAACP Image Award. His novel, The Penalty Killing, was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award as best debut crime novel, and his Amazon Kindle thriller Facetime was a bestseller. For TV and Film, his most recent projects are Epstein’s Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell, as cocreator and co-executive producer of the three-part series for NBC Peacock and SKY UK, and Our Lady of Staten Island, a feature documentary he wrote, produced and directed. As a journalist, he has written for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, Vancouver Sun, National Post, Saturday Night Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Food & Wine, New York Observer, New York Daily News, Politics Daily, Washington Post, The Players Tribune, America Magazine, and has won national news and magazine writing awards. He is a citizen of Canada, Ireland, and the United States and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Please see www.libertayo.com for a digital sampling of McKinley’s work.