The Quiet Ones Get Promoted (The Corner Office, Band 5) - Softcover

Voss, Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235508255

Verlag: Harlan Voss, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The most dangerous person in any room is the one who has decided not to be noticed. Leigh Sato learned this lesson the hard way. At twenty-six, she discovered fraud at her first Wall Street firm. She documented it. She reported it through the proper channels. Within ninety days, she was gone - walked out with a cardboard box and a severance designed to buy her silence. The man she reported was promoted to managing director. She never made that mistake again. Three years later, Leigh is the quietest analyst on the twenty-seventh floor of Halloran Reyes, a midsize investment bank where she takes the meeting minutes, wears the same three gray outfits in rotation, and has perfected the art of being so completely unremarkable that the brain files her under furniture. Nobody watches her. Nobody wonders what she writes in the steno pad on her lap. Nobody asks why a woman with her skills is content to be invisible. That is exactly how she has arranged it. When the firm's managing director is forced out in a financial scandal, Leigh is promoted to his chair - the safe, discreet, no-fingerprints interim. But the promotion is not a reward. It is a cage. The real architect of the fraud has committed his crime through her own credentials, dressing his guilt in her digital identity, and the corner office is not a step up. It is the place where the next fall stands. Now Leigh must navigate the most dangerous game of her career. An auditor is circling, unable to decide if Leigh is a perpetrator or a witness. A young analyst she mentored is being scapegoated for a crime he merely documented. Her only real friend has been quietly transferred for filing an honest report. And across the river, her mother - a former court stenographer who taught Leigh everything she knows about the power of the invisible record - is disappearing into dementia, her monthly care facility bills the chain that keeps Leigh inside the machine. Armed with eleven handwritten steno pads and a single keycard log entry that places the wrong man in the right room at 11:48 p.m., Leigh has seventy-two hours before the evidence is wiped to decide what her record is really for: a weapon, a confession, or the most patient act of revenge Wall Street has ever failed to see coming.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harlan Voss
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798235508255
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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