Unleashed

In his seventh gripping historical fiction thriller, author F. Mark Granato digs into his own career files to follow the journey of a young disillusioned corporate executive who has stumbled upon a treasonous conspiracy led by a ruthless CEO and his brutally loyal management team. There's something odd about the Chairman's laissez-faire reaction to a horrifying international tragedy that gets under Kevin Keller's skin. An unwitting discovery and his own naive sense of justice in a corporate world that makes its own rules puts his entire family at risk. He knows too much, and for his wife and children to survive, he must die. Set in the age of powerful, cold blooded international conglomerates run by high-octane, "Take no prisoner" CEO's, this edge-of-your-seat page-turner offers shocking glimpses into the the savage world where Fortune 50 corporations routinely ignored or crushed any impediment to "increased share owner value" while lining the pockets of insiders with obscene financial rewards. No excess was out of reach for the Pinstriped suit brigade that controlled Wall Street and the corporate Board Rooms of America. This is a story that will make the Millennial generation cringe.

Author F. Mark Granato grew up in Hartford CT, graduated from Providence College then worked as a journalist before joining United Technologies Corporation. He spent the next twenty-five years of his professional life in public relations and communications, ultimately as the vice president responsible for UTC’s worldwide communications and branding development efforts. He also served as Executive Assistant to the Chairman and CEO. His work required extensive international travel and the development of business relationships in emerging markets, particularly in China and Southeast Asia. Today he is retired from the corporate wars and is pursuing a life-long ambition to write fiction and especially to explore the ＂What if?＂ questions of history. Including UNLEASHED, he is the author of seven historical fiction thrillers: Out of Reach: The Day Hartford Hospital Burned; the acclaimed Vietnam-era, Finding David; the terrifying Of Winds and Rage - an historical fiction account of the Great New England Hurricane of 1938; the alternative histories Beneath His Wings: The Plot to Murder Lindbergh and Titanic: The Final Voyage; and The Barn Find, the heart wrenching saga of a New England family struggling to overcome conflict and loss after a tragedy that captured the eyes of the world. He writes from his home in Wethersfield, Connecticut with the help of a large German Shepherd named ＂Groban＂ who occasionally asks probing questions.