A Harvest Of Thorns Av Corban Addison

<p><b>A gripping new thriller that unpacks the horrors of exploitation in the garment industry, blending the nailbiting courtroom drama of John Grisham with the emotional heart of Khaled Hosseini.</b><br><br><b>''Poignant and engrossing ... Corban Addison will hold you spellbound with his elegant prose from his first word to his last'' Wilbur Smith</b><br><br><b>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 image-a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-storey fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America''s largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades old controversy about sweatshops, labour rights, and the ethics of globalization.<br></b><br>A year later, in Washington, D.C., Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist for the <i>Washing

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