The Business

Kate Telman is a senior executive officer in The Business, a powerful
and massively discreet transglobal organisation. Financially
transparent, internally democratic and disavowing conventional familial
inheritance, the character of The Business seems, even to Kate, to be
vague to the point of invisibility. It possesses, allegedly, a book of
Leonardo cartoons, several sets of Crown Jewels and wants to buy its own
State in order to acquire a seat at the United Nations.
Kate's job is to keep abreast of current technological developments and
her global reach encompasses Silicon Valley, a ranch in Nebraska, the
firm's secretive Swiss headquarters, and a remote Himalayan
principality. In the course of her journey Kate must peel away layers of
emotional insulation and the assumptions of a lifetime. She must learn
to keep her world at arm's length.
To take control, she has to do The Business.