In a news image gone viral, a pair of pants bearing the label of mega-retailer Presto Omnishops is seen wrapped around the face of a young Bangladeshi girl-the victim of a tragic fall during a building fire in her workplace, where clothing orders from Presto were fulfilled. 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.In this condemning portrayal of the endemic abuses that undergird the international fashion industry, Addison ( Tears of the Dark Water) takes the reader on a journey across the world, tracking a brand of clothing from retailer to distributor to manufacturer to sweatshop factory. Alexander, who has secrets of his own, offers Griswold confidential information about Presto's apparel supply chain.įor Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto's willful negligence is irresistible, as is the chance, however slight, at redemption. There, to Griswold's astonishment, he meets Cameron Alexander, Presto's long-time general counsel. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization.Ī 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. 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. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption.
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret.
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