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471 pages ; 20 cm A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. Amid the rubble, a bystander captures a heart-stopping image -- a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-story fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America's largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades old controversy about sweatshops, labour rights, and the ethics of globalisation. A year later, in Washington, D.C., Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist for the Washington Post, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower promising information about Presto. There, to Griswolds astonishment, he meets Cameron Alexander, Prestos long-time general counsel. Alexander, who has secrets of his own, offers Griswold confidential information about Prestos apparel supply chain. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Prestos willful negligence is irresistib

Author

Addison, Corban, 1979- author

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784295257

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities