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NOBODY KILLED GEORGE RAWLING. THAT IS THE TROUBLE.
They raised the rent one hard winter at a time. George chose the roof over the pill and died of it.
Robert Pures promises Pat he’ll look into it. It takes him a long way from New Denmark, to a man who has never been to the place he owns.
But nobody broke a law anywhere.
Robert still carries his father’s knife, though he no longer knows what it’s for.
Pat has a hollow in the woods where the good mushrooms grow next to the bad. But she knows the difference.
She knows a knife would be too kind.
The Story
The Architects of Control is a political thriller about AI, surveillance, and voter manipulation in rural Maine—where the woods keep secrets and struggling towns become testing grounds for power.
Six weeks before a presidential election, Deputy Robert Pures follows a hit-and-run into the North Woods and finds five people in a ramshackle fishing camp on a bend in the Allagash River. No hiking gear. No English.
The trail leads to a solar installation that promised green energy and jobs. But it isn’t producing power. It’s consuming it.
Four people stand between the truth and a stolen election: a deputy still grieving his wife who followed the tire tracks because that’s what he does; a town manager who realizes she opened the door to something she doesn’t yet understand; an election observer from Oslo stationed in a place no one thought mattered; a former intelligence analyst who walked away from her old life. It found her anyway.
IT ISN'T JUST COMING FOR YOUR JOB. IT'S COMING FOR YOUR VOTE.
The #1 IngramSpark Bestseller.
★★★★★ "A nonstop, hair-raising adventure." — Foreword Clarion Review
"Smart, sobering political thriller of chicanery in the Maine woods." — BookLife by Publishers Weekly
“Both explosively thrilling and quietly powerful.” — Kirkus Reviews
A political thriller about AI data centers and the next American election.
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