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Fracture Line
Paperback
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Nothing personal. Just business.
When Dan Hart, a senior technology leader at a European multinational, receives a routine email announcing organisational change, it seems harmless. The company is profitable. Systems are stable. Everything appears to be working exactly as it should. That is the danger.
As private equity ownership reshapes the organisation, efficiency becomes its highest virtue. Meetings grow shorter, decisions smoother, and accountability more abstract. Metrics replace judgment. Alignment matters more than truth. Silence becomes a professional skill.
Dan's role places him at the centre of this transformation. Responsible for service stability across regions and vendors, he helps design processes that prioritise recovery over explanation. Each decision is reasonable in isolation. Together, they create a system optimised not to surface risk, but to absorb it.
When a major incident validates the new operating model instead of exposing its flaws, Dan realises the organisation has learned to mistake quiet systems for safe ones. No rules have been broken. No one has acted improperly. Yet responsibility has quietly disappeared.
As governance tightens and outsourcing scales, Dan is forced to confront an unsettling truth: professionalism itself has become a form of consent. His dilemma is no longer whether to rebel, but whether integrity is still survivable.
Fracture Line is a corporate thriller about organisations that fracture through competence.
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