A lover of mystery novels, Silicon Valley tech veteran Phil Bookman decided the world needed a mystery se-ries featuring a high tech CEO hero. Thus came the Mike Gold Mystery Series. Mike is a great tech CEO, but trouble seems to find him with alarming regularity. Phil’s life is not nearly as exciting as Mike’s. Phil grew up in Seaford, New York, where he met and married his high school sweetheart, Lois. He has de-grees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Adelphi University and Santa Clara University. Lois and Phil re-side in Los Gatos, California and have lived in Silicon Valley since 1974. Before he started writing fiction, Phil had a long career as a software entrepreneur, starting a number of successful software companies.