In the United States, Cameron Alexander, the head lawyer for Presto Omnishops Corporation, the company that produced the implicated brand, is propelled for personal and professional reasons to discover how Presto’s brand was being manufactured in a factory that was on its Red List-a list of factories that were no longer allowed to produce its product because of hazardous working conditions. A photo of one of the employees who had jumped from a window to escape the fire-holding a garment over her face with a brand name clearly visible-goes viral, setting off a maelstrom of repercussions. For Griswold, the challenge of exposing Presto's willful negligence is irresistible, as is the chance, however slight, at redemption.ĭeploying 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 November 2013, a fire claims the lives of hundreds of employees working in unsafe conditions in a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. There, to Griswold's astonishment, he meets Cameron Alexander, Presto's long-time general counsel.Īlexander, who has secrets of his own, offers Griswold confidential information about Presto's apparel supply chain.

A 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. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women.Īmid 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.

A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret.Ī disgraced former journalist looking for redemption.Ī corporate executive with nothing left to lose.

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