More than a dozen times, the book used profanity. However, there was one glaring stain that ruined the whole book for me. While it’s fiction, the individuals found within it could easily be real people. It’s a story based on the reality of sweat shops and slave labor, and addresses the rights of workers in developing countries who make the products we find on our shelves. The story line was good, maybe even great. When I saw A Harvest Of Thorns, is seemed to be right up my alley, and I anticipated getting into it.

It’s one of my favorite genres, and I have found several authors that I really enjoy.

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 transform the fashion industry across the globe.I love reading a good legal thriller. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto’s culpability is irresistible, as is the chance, however slight, at redemption. 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 farther than he could ever imagine – and threaten everything he has left in the world.Ī year later, in Washington, D.C., 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 fire. 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.Įight thousand miles away, at Presto’s headquarters in Virginia, Cameron Alexander, the company’s long-time general counsel, watches the media coverage of the fire in horror, wondering if the damage can be contained. 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.

Corban addison a harvest of thorns