Unbridled Books
Unbridled Books

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them - Leo Tolstoy READ MORE

  • HOME
  • OUR BOOKS
  • AUTHOR EVENTS
  • OUR FAMILY
  • ABOUT US
  • CONTACT US

OUR BOOKS

See Complete On-Line Catalog"

One from Without

READER/BOOKSELLERS TOOLS

Take a look at our Bookseller Kits: marketing materials to help you display and/or to hand sell your favorite Unbridled titles, from reading guides to posters, and more!


Goodreads discussion LibraryThing discussion Shelfari discussion

Reading Guide PDF

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

A “thrilling topical mystery . . . What follows is an eye-opening portrayal of the fascinating lives and personalities of the key players and of the machinations corporate personnel employ to protect themselves and ensure the completion of the pending acquisition. The sophisticated depictions of human greed and frailty lead to a surprising, yet believable, ending.” —Publishers Weekly

I love “One From Without”.  To me it’s Jack’s best book since “Convergence”.  Jack’s experience in corporate board rooms makes this book unmatched in authenticity and the only novel I know which fully deserves the label of “corporate intrigue.”  The flashback portion detailing life in the intelligence services are on the level of LeCarre.      Beyond that, the writing – and detail – are often flat-out beautiful and the characterizations deep and compelling.This is a book that pulls you in from the start and propels you through the pages.  A truly wonderful novel.” –Scott Turow

“If you want a little corporate intrigue to heat up your summer reading, Jack Fuller’s One from Without fits the bill. Between this novel and Franzen’s Purity, I feel like I need to invest in some kind of super firewall before using my computer again!” —Edward Falco

“One From Without is Jack Fuller’s masterpiece. The way he takes crucial fundaments of this age. . . . and makes them enthralling, and transforms them into narrative tropes for our deep humanity, for our souls, is genius. Tom Rosten is his greatest character. He is all of us.”—Robert Olen Butler

JACK FULLER

ONE FROM WITHOUT

A large credit reporting company sees the era of Big Data coming. Its CEO dreams of knowing so much about the people it tracks that it will be able to predict what they will do. With the data, he believes, the company will know people better than they know themselves. Meantime, his chief financial officer has come to the corporate world in order to hide in the numbers on his spreadsheets, trying to escape a dark, ambiguous experience from his past in the CIA. Suddenly a hacker breaks into the company’s consumer database and alters individual files. This threatens not only the company future but its very existence. As senior executives struggle with what to do next, they find out who they really are. 

BOOK INFORMATION

$17.00 | Paperback | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 | 416 pages

June 2016

ISBN: 978-1-60953-130-0 | Carton Quantity: 24

EISBN: 978-1-60953-131-7

BUY NOW
BUY NOW



Barnes and Noble Buy Now

READ EXCERPT

Rosten’s windowless office seemed to exist in a time zone all its own. He switched on the autopsy fluorescents. On the desk was a note in Fisherman’s hand telling him to check his safe. He hung his trench coat on the steel rack, turned on the warm desk lamp, extinguished the overheads, and took the coffee pot down to the gents to fill. When he returned, his hands were so unsteady he had trouble measuring out the grind.

He had hung a rendering of Sterling Library on the wall opposite the desk. It seemed askew, so he went to level it. When he did, it seemed tilted the opposite direction. After several attempts, he gave up. It wasn’t the watercolor; it was his eyes.

He opened the safe and found three sets of folders, held together by heavy rubber bands, lying unfiled in the top drawer. The first set contained the usual Slavic and Eastern European names. But the individuals in the second set were different: Farzin Ibrhimi, Hamal Nabiev, Botir Ghazanfar. The material inside their files read like translated verse.

Even when he was just starting to work for Fisherman, the lives of the Russians and Czechs and East Germans had been reasonably familiar. They rose through the ranks of the classless society, ranks not all that different from the ones in which Rosten found himself. Yes, the guideposts along the way were different (Look Left), but that was just a matter of convention.

In contrast, this man from Kyrgyzstan might as well have been a Canto in Chinese characters. None of the others were any less opaque. The men—they were all men—came from the southern Soviet Republics or Afghanistan. Many had Russified names, but from their histories it was clear that they were nothing like the usual Ivans.

The doorknob rattled before Rosten got to the third set.

“So the prodigal has returned,” said Fisherman, more chipper than morning. “You look spent. Perhaps you partied.”

THE AUTHOR

Jack Fuller

Jack Fuller has published six critically acclaimed novels and one book of non-fiction about journalism. He has been a legal affairs writer, a war correspondent in Vietnam, a Washington correspondent, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer.

Three of his novels have been included in the University of Chicago Press’s distinguished Phoenix Fiction series. In 2005, he retired from a career in newspapers to concentrate on book writing. He began working in journalism at the age of 16 as a copyboy for the Chicago Tribune. Along the way he has worked for the Washington Post, Chicago Daily News, City News Bureau of Chicago, and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He left journalism for law briefly when U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi asked him to serve as his special assistant in the Department of Justice. At the Chicago Tribune he served as editor of the editorial page, editor, and publisher. When he retired, he was president of Tribune Publishing Co.

A graduate of Northwestern University and Yale Law School, he lives in Chicago with his wife, Debra Moskovits. He has two children, Tim and Kate.

Author photo by Debra Moskovits.

AUTHOR LINKS

Check out "Jack Fuller on Abbeville" on our Blog Page

AUTHOR EVENTS

See all Unbridled Author Events

AUTHOR PREVIOUS TITLES

One from Without

© Unbridled Books
2000 Wadsworth Blvd., #195, Lakewood, CO 80214
Email:
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Site Design:
Austin Computer