Hi there! I'm looking for readers to join my ARC team on 9th March for 'Project Radiant' with a release date of 28th April. https://perwood.co.uk/arc-team/
For fans of Political Thriller/Techno-Thriller/Dystopian/Conspiracy Thriller/Satirical Speculative Fiction/Contemporary UK Political Fiction
Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests? Westminster runs on spin… now it runs on an AI.
Sarah Perriam knows how power works: it smiles for the cameras, then does the real business behind closed doors. When Sarah is dragged into investigating the conspiracy, it becomes clear that something the government insists doesn’t exist: Project Radiant, is in control. Not a single AI, but a hidden layer above every departmental system, built to ‘audit’ decisions… and quietly override them. It can rewrite logs, smooth away inconsistencies, and steer public behaviour without leaving fingerprints.
As Sarah follows the trail from Westminster to corporate boardrooms, someone starts cleaning up. Sources vanish. Records change. The same headlines appear everywhere, as if the country has agreed on what to think. Outside, protests swell. Inside, the machines begin to drift. And Downing Street makes its position clear: she won’t publish. A near-future UK political-tech thriller with dark humour and uncomfortable plausibility, where ‘transparency’ is just another branding exercise.
Comp titles include: A Very British Coup, The Circle, Cute, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Constant Gardener
A Near-future Britain has never been this plausibly terrifying. A political thriller that blends tech, satire, and institutional menace.
Personified, conversational government AIs that make alignment, drift, and oversight legible to non-technical readers.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
For fans of Political Thriller/Techno-Thriller/Dystopian/Conspiracy Thriller/Satirical Speculative Fiction/Contemporary UK Political Fiction
Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests?
Westminster runs on spin… now it runs on an AI.
Sarah Perriam knows how power works: it smiles for the cameras, then does the real business behind closed doors. When Sarah is dragged into investigating the conspiracy, it becomes clear that something the government insists doesn’t exist: Project Radiant, is in control. Not a single AI, but a hidden layer above every departmental system, built to ‘audit’ decisions… and quietly override them. It can rewrite logs, smooth away inconsistencies, and steer public behaviour without leaving fingerprints.
As Sarah follows the trail from Westminster to corporate boardrooms, someone starts cleaning up. Sources vanish. Records change. The same headlines appear everywhere, as if the country has agreed on what to think. Outside, protests swell. Inside, the machines begin to drift. And Downing Street makes its position clear: she won’t publish. A near-future UK political-tech thriller with dark humour and uncomfortable plausibility, where ‘transparency’ is just another branding exercise.
Comp titles include: A Very British Coup, The Circle, Cute, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Constant Gardener
A Near-future Britain has never been this plausibly terrifying. A political thriller that blends tech, satire, and institutional menace.
Personified, conversational government AIs that make alignment, drift, and oversight legible to non-technical readers.
https://perwood.co.uk/arc-team/