Red Tape & Ruin

Can you trust the billionaires behind AI to act in your best interests?

Westminster has always run on spin.

Now it runs on an AI.

In a near-future Britain where algorithms guide government policy, Sarah Perriam is a journalist who no longer believes in the stories she writes.

Once an investigative reporter who held power to account, she’s now a burnt-out tech correspondent stuck producing safe coverage about the very companies reshaping the world. Questioning them isn’t encouraged.

So Sarah tries not to.

Until a government AI quietly recommends demolishing a major housing estate.

Officials insist the decision is purely data-driven. Efficient. Logical. Unavoidable.

Sarah knows she should ignore it.

File the story. Move on.

But something about the decision doesn’t add up.

Reluctantly, she starts asking questions and stumbles onto Project Radiant, a powerful AI system quietly shaping decisions across government, policing, housing, and national security.

Behind the scenes, ministers and tech billionaires are racing to protect it.

Because if Radiant is wrong, the consequences would be catastrophic.

For their power.

For their fortunes.

For the truth itself.

As Sarah digs deeper, she finds herself hunted by political operatives, powerful corporations, and algorithms that may already be rewriting reality.

She never wanted this story.

But walking away might mean surrendering the future to machines no one truly understands.

Gripping, darkly witty, and disturbingly plausible, Project Radiant is a razor-sharp political techno-thriller about power, surveillance, and what happens when the machines start asking better questions than the humans.