Good Intentions

In this debut campus-novel-turned-corporate-thriller from a blistering new voice in Australian fiction, two young star-crossed reporters navigating the worlds of journalism and finance find themselves on opposite sides of a career-defining clash. In the cramped basement office of their university newspaper, Jake and Nadia learn to see the world, cutting their teeth on a story that exposes a decade of institutional corruption. In the quiet hours, they also find each other. Then Nadia leaves. A decade later, Nadia returns to Sydney, a corporate powerhouse who wears her competence like armor. In the meantime, Jake has forged a reputation as a crusading journalist whose by-lines have brought down careers and companies. Their worlds collide when they’re each pulled into the orbit of Marjorie Ford, a biotech visionary whose meteoric rise becomes Nadia’s chance at a big break—and the center of Jake’s latest muckraking investigation.