Frequently asked questions
- What is Red Blinders about?
- Red Blinders is a near-future political techno-thriller about Kenneth Warzel, a burned-out Philadelphia professional whose private experiment with a pair of horse blinders is filmed, leaked, and engineered into virality. As Warzel, our accidental revolutionary, struggles to navigate his fraught fame, he finds himself at the heart of a grand conspiracy: on one side a corrupt government in bed with industry, on the other an army of blinder-clad anarchists and their fleet of explosive-equipped drones.
- Is this the same as the TV show Peaky Blinders?
- No. Red Blinders by W.D. Peak is a 2026 near-future AI thriller. It is not the BBC television series Peaky Blinders, and it is not any crime novel of similar name.
- Who is W.D. Peak?
- W.D. Peak is the pen name of an independent novelist.
- Where can I buy Red Blinders?
- Red Blinders is available now on Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions and is eligible for Kindle Unlimited. See the Where to Buy page for the links.
- Is Red Blinders part of a series?
- No. Red Blinders is a standalone novel of 65,000 words (about 280 paperback pages). There are no prequels or sequels.
- What genre is Red Blinders, and who is it for?
- A near-future political techno-thriller: commercial-thriller pacing with a literary, philosophical register. It is for readers of Daniel Suarez’s Daemon and Blake Crouch’s Recursion, in the lane of Dave Eggers’s The Circle and Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot, with the literary-AI register of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.