Double Materiality (Paperback)

Paperback. In a world where numbers are trusted more than people, three auditors discover how easily both can be manipulated.When a prestigious audit firm assigns a senior partner and two associates to review a pharmaceutical client on the brink of collapse, the engagement appears routine-until a single invoice shifts where it shouldn't. What begins as a technical discrepancy quietly exposes a system designed to erase truth in real time.At the center of the investigation is Elias, a respected partner whose authority masks dangerous compromises; Riya, the associate whose instinct for patterns makes her indispensable-and vulnerable; and Jonas, caught between loyalty, fear, and a growing sense that survival may require betrayal. As the evidence deepens, so does their entanglement: professional boundaries blur, trust fractures, and desire complicates every ethical decision.When they realize the fraud reaches beyond the client and into their own firm's highest ranks, the audit becomes a countdown. Threats arrive without signatures. Deadlines are imposed by unseen hands. And the three must decide-not just what to expose, but how much of themselves they are willing to lose to do it.Double Materiality is a literary corporate thriller about power without spectacle, corruption without villains, and intimacy forged under pressure. It explores the seductive danger of proximity-between colleagues, between truth and survival, between doing the job and becoming complicit.This is a novel for readers of intelligent suspense, where the most dangerous moments happen in quiet rooms, and the greatest betrayals arrive wrapped in professionalism. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…