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Pub Date 23 Sep 2025 | Archive Date 15 Jan 2026
Tessa Pacelli | Zero Day Books, LLC

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Description

What if your dream job became a nightmare without end?

Fresh out of Harvard Business School, Kayla Mousavi lands a coveted job at General Recycling, beating out thousands to work for Americaʼs hottest tech company and its legendary CEO, Frederick Douglass Monahan. It seems like a golden opportunity. GRʼs trash eating bacteria gobble up refuse, rescuing a world choking on garbage. And her job, as the right-hand analyst of a global business celebrity, guarantees a glittering future. But Kayla should have remembered what her father – in prison for insider trading – always said. Inside every great company is great crime.

It's not long before Kayla stumbles onto the kind of dirt that not even the magic GR bugs can disappear. Soon, she’s witness to a professional hit — a hit meant for her — and on a collision course with the truth behind the trash: deep in the bowels of a Wall Street darling is an extraordinary and terrifying business that will reshape everything we believe about psychology, security, privacy, and human nature. Now, to live, Kayla will have to outsmart a ruthless genius with unlimited resources. A man who absolutely intends to change the world…just not exactly as advertised.

What if your dream job became a nightmare without end?

Fresh out of Harvard Business School, Kayla Mousavi lands a coveted job at General Recycling, beating out thousands to work for Americaʼs hottest...


A Note From the Publisher

Tessa Pacelli is a NYC-based author of sophisticated thrillers set in the elite and unforgiving terrain of international business, finance, and technology. Find her at tessapacelli.com for more information, free stories, and various thriller-adjacent content.

Tessa Pacelli is a NYC-based author of sophisticated thrillers set in the elite and unforgiving terrain of international business, finance, and technology. Find her at tessapacelli.com for more...


Advance Praise

"Wildly intriguing and fresh...You won’t forget Kayla’s story!"

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author, The Deep End of the Ocean

EARLY READER PRAISE FOR THE GARBAGE MAN:

“The twists and turns never stopped coming....”

“The story grabbed me from the beginning....”

“Fast paced and had lots of twists and turns.”

“A gripping plot”

“I really enjoyed this story!”

“Realistic in a scary sort of way.”

"Wildly intriguing and fresh...You won’t forget Kayla’s story!"

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author, The Deep End of the Ocean

EARLY READER PRAISE FOR THE GARBAGE MAN:

“The twists...


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