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20 of Your Favorite Corporate Thrillers

Kelly Jensen

Editor

Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

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uncaged coverShay Remby arrives in Hollywood with $58 and a handmade knife, searching for her brother, Odin.

Odin’s a brilliant hacker but a bit of a loose cannon. He and a group of radical animal-rights activists hit a Singular Corp. research lab in Eugene, Oregon. The raid was a disaster, but Odin escaped with a set of highly encrypted flash drives and a post-surgical dog.

When Shay gets a frantic 3 a.m. phone call from Odin—talking about evidence of unspeakable experiments, and a ruthless corporation, and how he must hide—she’s concerned. When she gets a menacing visit from Singular’s security team, she knows: her brother’s a dead man walking.

What Singular doesn’t know—yet—is that 16-year-old Shay is every bit as ruthless as their security force, and she will burn Singular to the ground, if that’s what it takes to save her brother.

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We asked you to tell us your favorite corporate thrillers — you know, the books where the little guy (or girl or either or neither or both) takes on The Man. Here’s a look at 20 of your favorites.

The Chairman by Stephen W. Frey

Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo

The Devil’s Banker by Christopher Reich

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Disclosure by Michael Crichton

The Finder by Colin Harrison

The Firm by John Grisham

The 500 by Matthew Quirk

The Fourth Estate by John Archer

Limitless by Alan Glynn

Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison

The Millionaires by Brat Meltzer

Next by Michael Crichton

Oath of Office by Michael Palmer

Paranoia by Joseph Finder

The Policy by Patrick Lynch

Rising Sun by Michael Crichton

The Select by F. Paul Wilson

Skinner by Charlie Huston

Smoke Screen by Kyle Mills