The Deliverable

di Akiel Barton (Autore)

KBC LLC, 2026

She's spent a decade writing the words powerful people can't bring themselves to say. She's very good at it. This time, she may be too good. When Sloane Adler is hired to draft a public apology for a Silicon Valley CEO whose "human flourishing" platform secretly harvested emotional vulnerability data and sold it to insurers and political campaigns, it looks like a clean, well-paid project. A statement. A few drafts. A deliverable. Nine months and eleven drafts later, not a single word has been sent. The lawyers carve out every sentence that admits harm. The PR strategists debate sincerity as a positioning choice. The executives want the feeling of accountability without any of its costs. And Sloane—who has made a career of making indefensible positions sound defensible—begins to realize the apology was never meant to exist. The deliverable was always the performance of working on one. Then she reads the blog posts of a whistleblower who was simply trying to tell the truth. And something shifts. Scalpel-sharp and relentlessly funny, this is a novel about institutional remorse as an industry—and what it costs to be its most skilled practitioner. Add to cart and meet the woman who writes what power refuses to own.

• Autore: Akiel Barton
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: KBC LLC
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235413801