Custodian

When a multinational corporation becomes so big and so powerful that it is effectively impossible for any Government to regulate or control that corporation can anyone be sure that its activities are legal and ethical?
In this third book in the author's commonly themed 'first contact' series, such a corporation has risen to global omnipotence but has shed its ethics along the way. Murder and a great deal worse have become everyday business tools.
When as a result of whispered rumours an investigative journalist is set loose to find out if anything underhand is going on in the corporation's corridors of power he discovers that the rumours of misdeeds may be true but the extent of those misdeeds is something for which nothing could have prepared him and which puts him in mortal and constant danger.
The story is fast-paced throughout and provides more than one horrific shock at the end.