Uncertain Outcomes

Claire Perkins has a fresh MBA and a job at the Manhattan headquarters of a large corporation, and she soon learns how far the consequences of a corporate decision can travel. Asked to gather information on whether the company's Alabama plant should move overseas, she flies to China to assess the proposed site and finds something she was never meant to: the Chinese government wants the military technology assembled in Alabama, and it has covert operatives in place to take it.

Tom Williams's short novel sets boardroom ambition against espionage and shifting American policy on China, and it also follows Claire as she discovers that the tactics she relied on to get ahead will not carry her through. It suits readers who like their business stories with a thread of intrigue and an eye on how commerce and government collide.