A Harvest of Thorns

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 photograph€"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.

Eight thousand miles away at Presto€s headquarters in Virginia, Cameron Alexander, the company€s long-time general counsel, watches the media coverage in horror, wondering if the damage can be contained. When the photo goes viral, fanning the flames of a decades-old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization, he launches an investigation into the disaster that will reach further than he could ever imagine€"and threaten everything he has left in the world.

A year later in Washington DC, Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist from the Washington Post, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower who offers him confidential information about Presto and the fi re. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto€s culpability 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 in Presto€s boardroom that could transform the fashion industry across the globe.

€œThis expos© of the underbelly of the international fashion industry is disturbing, moving, and thoroughly engrossing.€ €"PHILLIP MARGOLIN, New York Times bestselling author of Violent Crimes