Disclosure
A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom...
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A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in Seattle, a man whose corporate future is certain. Until: after a closed-door meeting with his new boss -- a woman who was his lover ten years before, a woman who has been promoted to the position he expected to have -- he is accused of sexually harassing her. Now he finds himself trapped between what he knows to be true and what he knows others will assume to be the truth. And, as he uncovers an electronic trail into the company's secrets, he begins to grasp just how cynical and manipulative an abuse of truth has actually occurred...Tackling one of the most divisive issues of our time, Disclosure compels us to see beyond our traditional responses. It is Michael Crichton at his best.Michael Crichton's novels include The Terminal Man, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, and Rising Sun.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679419457 (0679419454)
ASIN: 679419454
Publish date: January 13th 1994
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages no: 404
Edition language: English
I decided to take a sabbatical this summer and read something breezy . I thought a Michael Crichton book would be a good pick. I loved Jurassic Park but wanted to wrap myself in a story with less animal mayhem. I settled for a suspense story about a man falsely accused of sexual harassment by his fe...
“POWER IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE. “Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton written on the year 1993. This book is about sexual harassment in corporate companies. Normally, anybody will think that this would be a story of a girl being harassed by her Boss. But, it is not so. It is just the opposit...
A man is sexually harrassed by a woman. The high-powered attorney hired to defend him is a Latina--two legally protected classes wedged into one pair of patent-leather pumps. And a shallow, self-serving CEO defends his choice of a woman for a top post, telling the company lawyer, "Hell, we've got to...
A man is sexually harrassed by a woman. The high-powered attorney hired to defend him is a Latina--two legally protected classes wedged into one pair of patent-leather pumps. And a shallow, self-serving CEO defends his choice of a woman for a top post, telling the company lawyer, "Hell, we've got to...