About this ebook
It's not gold that glitters but health stolen from past workers.
Poisoned by chemicals they used, many are sick and dying. The story reaches a journalist. Inquiries lead her to a new company, Gilt Investments, a public float promising an investor bonanza. It keeps the valued parts and leaves the risk behind. The workers get nothing. The clock is ticking. Can it be stopped?
The publicity for Gilt Investments claims risk free investment and a gilded future. Is it real or is it golden spin, a new public mask of glitter to hide the guilt behind.
Corporate lawyer, Stephen, knows Gilt Investments will give a great return. His own bonus and share allocation promise a cash bonanza. It is all set to go. He delivers the Prospectus to the printer to send out to select clients. It goes live in a week.
But as the final hours tick away a journalist rings. A desperately ill woman has contacted her, she claims the past company has poisoned her.
The more the journalist looks the worse the story becomes, not one but dozens of victims. And there is a trail of deception by the former company to hide the truth of what happened three decades ago. As she digs deeper she finds other victims, paid a pittance and then hushed up. Some are dead now but many others are alive and sick.
The journalist find out an imminent company restructure will separate a murky past from a glittering future. As she gets closer to the truth the company turns to sexual blackmail, used against her.
It is a race on three counts, to stop the float clock so the assets don't vanish, to keep the victims alive to testify and to keep her own past buried, lest it derail it all.
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About the author
Graham Wilson lives in Sydney Australia.
He has completed and published twelve novels and a memoir.
His most recent novel is : 'Mysteries', set in early Sydney about an old house and a mother and child missing for 30 years.
Other novels comprise two series,
1. Old Balmain House Series - 3 books
2. Crocodile Dreaming Series - 7 books.
He has also written a standalone novel, 'Glitter'.
Graham's family memoir, 'Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children' tells of his family's life in an aboriginal community the Northern Territory's remote Arnhem Land. It chronicles an idyllic childhood, 50 years of change with aboriginal land rights and discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.
Books are published as ebooks by major ebook publishers. Some books are also available in print online and through selected local bookshops.
Graham's career was first as a veterinarian in a mixed practice treating farm animals and people's pets, before following his love for wildlife through working at Melbourne, Taronga and Western Plains Zoos. He spent two decades working on large cattle and buffalo properties in the Northern Territory before moving to Sydney where he now lives in one of Sydney's oldest houses in the Rocks. He has continued to follow his joint passions working with animals, wildlife conservation and writing stories.
