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The Leak

From The Current Encyclopedia

The Leak is a novel by Elias Wrenfield and the seventh book of The Current series, and the first set outside Halcyon Bio. It follows Lydia Marsh, who measures people for a living.

Premise

Lydia's heat map of forty-two managers is orange and gray, except for one row. Neil Brask is the best director at Hollis-Tate. He is kind and he gives his team the credit, and eleven of his people have left in fourteen months, every one of them saying the same thing on the way out: tired. Then a new senior vice president arrives from Halcyon Bio, Alexander Milcovich. He wants Neil promoted, and he wants to meet with him every morning at seven. Every cold room has a reasonable explanation. So Lydia adds a column: who was in the room.

Main characters

  • Lydia Marsh. The division's People Partner. Point of view.
  • Neil Brask. A brilliant, decent director, up for vice president.
  • Alexander Milcovich. The new senior vice president, from Halcyon Bio.

Connections

  • After Halcyon, he runs three divisions at a bigger company.
  • Lydia's extra column echoes Cal's second column in Book 2.

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