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Very Bad Company is a slick send-up of corporate culture wrapped in a captivating mystery

a young man with whom he feels an instant connection

let alone heal him

and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt

Trial Aurora Ascher Very Bad Company is aTrial confirms Richard North Patterson's place as "our most important author of popular fiction." In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America's most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen year old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff's deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia. His single mother, Allie, America's leading voting rights advocate,