Clint Ashford writes high-concept thrillers about power. How it’s built, how it’s hidden, and what happens when it begins to unravel.

His work draws on real-world advances in space exploration, and the Citizen’s United v Federal Election Commission landmark decision, exploring two simple questions:

What happens when multi-trillionaires appear? And what will that mean for the rest of us?

Blending covert operations, emerging science (with a sprinkling of fiction), and the pull of love, lust, and temptation, his stories operate in the space between governments, corporations, and the individuals caught between them.

Influenced as much by cinema as by fiction, Ashford’s writing is driven by immersive visuals, and characters who think several moves ahead. People who understand that control is rarely visible until it’s too late.

His stories are also defined by the women within them: intelligent, ruthless, and operating in the shadows, where decisions are made before the world even knows there’s a problem.

Anonymity, in that world, isn’t protection.

It’s power.

The 2econd Man is his debut novel.