Mike McCarthy

I am a successful performance and process improvement consultant. My business books include You Made My Day (with Janis Allen), and Sustain Your Gains - The People Side of Lean Six-Sigma.

My dad taught me to be curious. He showed me how: find someone who knows what you want to know - and ask them questions. More fun and interactive than textbooks!

In my thriller novels The Noah Option and The Rainbow Option, I tell the stories of creative, curious people - scientists, engineers and tech innovators - who struggle against powerful groups aiming to suppress their inventions. Small groups fighting for their freedoms.

Tom Clancy, Craig Johnson, Orson Scott Card, Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein are authors I admire who have influenced my work. In my latest thriller, The Timshel Option, I drew "dystopian" inspiration from Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series and Veronica Roth's Divergent series.