The Scrutiny: A Political Conspiracy Techno Thriller

By Rais Busom

NOBODY COUNTS THE VOTES TWICE.

Boston, 2001. In a dorm room at Babson College, two students stay up all night over a problem no one has solved: how to vote over the internet without anyone being able to touch the result. When they finally crack the algorithm, Jerry Sheridan and Andrew Maerts aren't thinking about democracy. They're thinking about what they're going to make.

InterVoteSec grows fast. Funding rounds, government contracts, countries they couldn't find on a map. Ten years later the company is worth a billion dollars-and it no longer belongs to them. It belongs to a fund called BlackBrick, and to a man who never quite explains why he buys what he buys.

Andrew starts asking questions. Jerry signs and looks the other way, which is what he does best. Until looking away is no longer enough.

From Boston to Wall Street, from a Caribbean island where the powerful meet in secret to a Latin American republic on the brink, The Scrutiny is a conspiracy thriller about friendship, ambition, and the people who decide elections before a single vote is cast.

Inspired by a true story-though fabled.

Originally published in Spanish as El escrutinio.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMJYSFTL
• ISBN13: 9798161267899
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"