@2@@20@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.@21@@3@@2@@20@’Poignant and engrossing … Corban Addison will hold you spellbound with his elegant prose from his first word to his last‘ Wilbur Smith@21@@3@@2@@20@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.@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@A year later, in Washington, D.C., Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist for the @18@Washington Post@19@, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower promising information about Presto. He offers Griswold confidential information about Presto’s apparel supply chain.@3@@2@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.@3@
ISBN: 978-1-78429-525-7
