Robert Tibbs brings over 26 years of executive leadership to federal contracting, managing multimillion-dollar portfolios across defense and civilian agencies.
Now I am channeling that experience into a different kind of strategy. Dead Signal, my debut sci-fi mystery thriller trilogy beginning with Static in 2026, follows Sam Hadley, a 21-year-old satellite monitoring tech who hears something on a dead Cold War bird that should not be there.
The same instincts that win contracts turn out to be the ones that keep characters alive when the signal awakens.
The Dead Signal trilogy started with a question I couldn't shake: what happens when the official story stops making sense, and you're young enough to still believe a better one is out there? I'd spent years writing nonfiction about how organizations work and don't work, but the books I kept reaching for at night trusted a stubborn young protagonist to be smarter than the adults around her. So I went back to 1995, before everyone had a phone in their pocket, before every question had a search bar, and I built a world for Sam Hadley. She's twenty-one. She's smart in ways that haven't helped her yet. And she's just picked up a signal nobody alive is supposed to be sending. Three books, one long unraveling, and a truth that costs her more than she planned to pay.