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. This 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