Wearing the Spider

Wearing the Spider
Susan Schaab
Galavant Press, LLC
ISBN: 1-934291-05-6
Fiction,Thriller
Reviewed by Ross Malde

Most of us have experienced abuse of power in the workplace. The boss who knows we have little or no recourse for their actions and the feeling of helplessness it creates. Susan Schaab utilizes our mutual fear of this situation to draw them into the plight of Evie, a female lawyer on the edge of becoming a partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm.

She knows enough to avoid close contact with one of the firm’s partners from previous unwanted and rejected sexual advances but she is spun into something new. There is evidence that she has orchestrated legal transactions that she hasn’t even worked on and she is being set up. But the evidence is electronic and changes almost daily. It appears that she is the one changing it and these changes could not only jeopardize her becoming a partner but end her career. But is her nemesis in the office the one doing it?
As Evie searches out the answers the stakes get higher, her innocence becomes less plausible and the scheme enters the realm of governmental tampering.
The author does a convincing job as the book confronts us with some of the horrifying truths of our computer age world. It is a world of computer viruses that steal our identities, of offshore transactions that cleanse money unlawfully gained and allow for governmental corruption that threaten public safety and can place the blame solely on you.