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- Title
- The Consultant's Last Client
- Author
- Harlan Voss
- Publisher
- Harlan Voss
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235752214
- Item weight
- 275 grams
- Dimensions
- 203x127x13 mm
She was hired to save the company. She discovered the company was saving itself - with dirty money.
Sloane Adler is the Scalpel. A former McKinsey engagement manager turned elite independent consultant, she walks into failing companies, reads the numbers, and tells the owners what they don't want to hear. She's built a career on professional detachment - seeing people as line items, treating emotion as noise, and never staying long enough to care about the consequences of her recommendations.
When Carvell & Sons Fine Furnishings - a family-owned furniture factory in the mountains of rural Tennessee - hires her for a three-week restructuring analysis, the engagement looks routine. A company in decline. A town of 4,200 that survives on the factory's payroll. Three brothers who can't agree on a path forward: Wade, the polished CEO who controls the thermostat and the narrative; Nolan, the calloused operations man who knows every worker by name; and Garrett, the youngest - a private equity prodigy who left Calvary at eighteen and returned two years ago with a Tesla, a glass cabin on the ridge, and reasons he hasn't fully explained.
The numbers don't add up. Sloane finds it on day two - a $2.4 million budget with no documentation, three employees on the payroll who don't exist, and a revenue gap of seven million dollars between what the company tells the county and what it tells the IRS. The factory floor is too clean. The cash reserves are too strong. The insurance premiums cover risks a furniture company doesn't have. And Helen Parrish - the meticulous, ever-humming bookkeeper who has run the office for twenty-three years - is maintaining two sets of books: one reported, one actual.
What Sloane uncovers is a thirty-year money-laundering operation, built by the company's dead founder and inherited by his sons. An unmarked warehouse across town processes shipments at 2 a.m. Shell companies in Delaware funnel money to the Cayman Islands. Ghost employees draw salaries from dead people's Social Security numbers. The factory makes real furniture with real craftsmanship - and it is also the most sophisticated financial crime in East Tennessee.
Garrett didn't bring Sloane to Calvary to save the company. He brought her to legitimize it. Her restructuring report - clean, credible, signed by a Harvard MBA with an impeccable reputation - was designed to be the evidence that the factory was a real business, should the FBI ever come knocking. And the FBI is already knocking. Nolan, the middle brother, has been cooperating with federal agents for three months.
When Sloane refuses to complete the report, Garrett's charm dissolves into threat. He knows about Veridian - Sloane's deepest professional failure, the engagement where her analysis led to 340 workers losing their jobs while the CEO cashed out $12 million. He threatens to fabricate documents proving she was complicit. The trap was built before she arrived. Her guilt was the blueprint.
But Sloane Adler was trained to read systems, and every system has a breaking point. Hers arrives in a Holiday Inn parking lot at dawn, facing a man who calculated everything except the possibility that the instrument he built would choose its own direction.
A searing psychological thriller about complicity, conscience, and the price of telling the truth when silence would cost nothing and everything at once.
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