A gripping new thriller that unpacks the horrors of exploitation in
the garment industry, blending the nailbiting courtroom drama of
John Grisham with the emotional heart of Khaled Hosseini. 'Poignant
and engrossing ... Corban Addison will hold you spellbound with his
elegant prose from his first word to his last' Wilbur Smith 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-storey 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 globalization. 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.
He offers Griswold confidential information about Presto's apparel
supply chain. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto's
wilful negligence is irresistible, as is the chance, however
slight, at redemption. Deploying his old journalistic skills, he
builds a historic case against Presto, setting the stage for a war
in the courtroom and in the media that Griswold is determined to
win - both to salvage his reputation and to provoke a revolution of
conscience in Presto's boardroom that could change the course of
the fashion industry across the globe.
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