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    Vice

    By Christopher Gates

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    Matt finds a new job and a new chance for the success he's always dreamed of. But the company, and the isolated desert town where it's based, hold as many unexpected temptations as they do dark secrets.

    Beautiful, young professionals crowd the company orientation sessions, the city streets, and the pool of his apartment complex. Matt becomes addicted to the corporate culture that encourages team building activities and intimate group bonding exercises, and finds it impossible to leave even after some of his co-workers begin disappearing – or being “demoted.” He accepts his company's values of loyalty, contribution, and competition and finds himself using the most cutthroat methods to achieve promotion. The higher up the ladder he moves the more deranged he discovers the company to be, until finally he's left with the choice of escape or losing himself entirely.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Gates
    Release dateDec 26, 2012
    ISBN9781301930388
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    Christopher Gates

    Born in Ohio, Christopher Gates has worked fighting forest fires in both California and Florida, he's volunteered with the Red Cross in Puerto Rico, and he's taught English as a second language in South Korea. He is currently earning a master's degree in English from an Ohio university. He started writing in his late teens and has completed dozens of short stories and two novels.

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