AL BIRTCH
Real-world truths.
Unsettling possibilities.
Intelligent contemporary thrillers born from the corridors of power—where ambition outruns conscience, and justice is never guaranteed.
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Seven stories.
No easy answers.
Standalone novels. Shared convictions.
A cinematic catalogue of power, consequence, and the price of doing what is right.
LIMITED SERIES ADAPTATIONA Blood-Red Greening
When the law protects those who poisoned his family, a grieving grandfather delivers his own justice—and a police negotiator must decide which side of the line she stands on.
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Altered States: Precipice
As a Pacific-coast secession pact threatens to redraw North America, a Canadian officer uncovers a clandestine invasion plan—and democracy approaches its breaking point.
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Legacy of Greed
A billionaire’s suicide leaves an investigative journalist an encrypted confession—and evidence that the world’s response to environmental collapse is more horrifying than its silence.
Explore the novel ↗“What happens when good people are forced to confront systems that have abandoned justice?”AL BIRTCH
A lifetime inside power.
A different kind of thriller.
Before writing fiction, Al Birtch led at the CEO level in Canadian banking. Decades in North American boardrooms revealed the competing motivations behind decisions that change lives.
That experience now informs seven intelligent thrillers—authentic in their institutions, human in their stakes, and unsettlingly plausible.
Meet the authorThe Reckoning
A six-part limited event series based on
A Blood-Red Greening.
When power goes unchecked,
the cost is paid by the people.
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Environmental justice · Moral conflict · Corporate accountabilityThe next chapter is a partnership.
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