“In my two decades as a freelance editor, I have come across a handful of novels so compelling that I could scarcely put them down, and Architects is among them.”
—Jennifer Caven, Editor, Mainly Words, US
The Architects of Control: A Political Thriller
IT ISN’T JUST COMING FOR YOUR JOB.
IT’S COMING FOR YOUR VOTE.
Publication June 23, 2026 | Black Trumpet Press | Hardcover $27.99
Somewhere in northern Maine, a town voted exactly the way someone wanted it to. They didn’t rig the vote. They rigged the voters. And now it’s being scaled for the presidential election.
When Deputy Robert Pures investigates a hit-and-run in the Allagash Woods, he finds five people in a fishing camp who have no business being there. The trail leads to a solar installation that promised clean energy and jobs. It delivers neither.
As the countdown to Election Day begins, an unlikely alliance forms to expose the truth—a grieving deputy and his daughter, a Norwegian election observer, and a former intelligence analyst with a past she can’t outrun.
They have six weeks. No one will believe them. And someone is already trying to stop them.
Bright lights. Long shadows.
The Architects of Control is a political thriller about democratic erosion, AI-driven manipulation, and the quiet courage of ordinary people who refuse to look away — set against the stark beauty of rural Maine, where everyone knows everyone, the woods keep secrets, and the votes were supposed to count.
S.A. Cosby’s rural noir meets Louise Penny’s small-town intrigue and Mick Herron’s distrust of power.
“The Architects of Control is an intense, exciting, imaginative political thriller … if you like political thrillers you will love this. Harold Greene has written a superb story about politics now, and into the possibly foreseeable future.”
—Kathy Park Dowling, ARC Review, Australia
“A real page-turner with a cunning, hyper-relevant plot. The characters are still floating around in my head like real people I’d want to meet.”
—Magnus Lilledahl, Beta reader, Norway
