Howard Bolter
Author | Media Executive
Howard Bolter
Author | Media Executive
🛡️ Political thrillers with an insider’s sense of how systems break
Murder, power, and the machinery behind the official story.
Howard Bolter writes high-stakes thrillers built around covert operations, institutional pressure, and the fragile line between justice and power. His fiction draws on a fifty-year career spent inside television, technology, live operations, and the systems that shape what the public gets to see.
Featured Book
A French diplomatic attaché is murdered in New Orleans. The assignment looks routine until Cyrus Greene and French intelligence officer Sofia Haddad find the case wired into a network protected by money, influence, and absolute loyalty.
“Some conspiracies are built in secret.
Others stand in plain sight.”
Others stand in plain sight.”
For thriller readers
The Cyrus Greene books move through homicide, intelligence, diplomacy, and political pressure without losing the drive of a page-turning investigation.
For media insiders
The non-fiction books draw from live production, network operations, channel launches, and the long transition from broadcast to streaming.
For press & interviews
Bolter’s career connects entertainment, technology, and independent publishing, giving interviews a broader story than a single book release.
Fiction
The Cyrus Greene mysteries
Cyrus Greene works for an obscure military homicide unit assigned to deaths with national security implications. The cases look procedural at first. Then evidence moves, witnesses disappear, and respected institutions begin to look less like guardians than shields.
Book 1
The Blue Water Protocol
A body in Nebraska triggers a restricted federal alert and pulls Greene into a case no one wants solved.
The deeper Greene digs, the less the evidence points outward. Corruption, misdirection, and buried loyalties turn the investigation toward a more dangerous truth.
Book 2
The Benchstone Protocol
A Supreme Court law clerk is murdered in Switzerland. The case does not stay in Switzerland.
What begins as an international homicide investigation becomes a hunt through surveillance teams, judicial power, and the quiet machinery built to protect secrets.
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Book 3
The Statue Protocol
A murdered diplomat. A hidden network. A conspiracy reaching the highest levels of power.
Captain Cyrus “CG” Greene follows a trail from New Orleans to Washington, D.C., Paris, and beyond, where every witness, file, and institution seems to have been touched by someone with something to hide.
Non-Fiction
The control room view of television.
These books are for people who want to understand how television really works, not just what appears on screen.
Behind the Control Room
My 50 Years in Hollywood:
From Broadcast to Streaming
From Broadcast to Streaming
Not a celebrity memoir, but a working account of how television actually gets made: the crews, crises, control rooms, launches, failures, recoveries, and decisions audiences never see.
From Stream to Screen
An Insider’s Guide to Building OTT Channels
and Streaming Networks
and Streaming Networks
A practical guide for producers, operators, founders, and media teams trying to understand what it really takes to design, launch, and sustain a modern streaming network.