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BDGs Chief Content Officer is releasing the follow-up to her national bestseller,Bad Summer People.
Get an early look at the cover and an exclusive excerpt.
Ive worked in media for nearly two decades.
Plus, Rosenblum couldnt resist jumping back into the psyches of some very bad people.
Being nice and normal is boring.
Who wants to read a book about that?
But thats the fun of it.
Very Bad Companyis out on May 14 andavailable for pre-order now.
Below, read the books first pages, exclusive to Bustle.
Prologue
Never Give In
John Shiller hadnt meant for anyone to die.
Hed grown up in Palo Alto, not exactly a hotbed of homicide.
But his dad was haunted by the outsize success of others, the billions hed never made.
I should have started something myself is something John heard him say a million times during Johns childhood.
Not sure why I didnt.
Early in his life, John vowed to be different from his father.
Hed be one of the chosen ones.
One of the Steves and Bills.
Sure, he wasnt a brilliant engineer.
That he could do.
And now it was all coming down on top of him, piece by piece.
Hed nurtured his team, hed loved them, hed given them so much.
The opportunity to work alongside John Shiller.
Only to be betrayed by them, each and every one.
As his hero Winston Churchill once said, Never give in never, never, never, never.
John wouldnt give in.
John would not become his dad, filled with regret that he wasnt a titan.
He would fight and win, by any means necessary.
The bridge finally closed, and his car started moving.
Biscayne Bay sparkled in the moonlight as John headed toward the morgue.
EXCERPTED FROMVERY BAD COMPANY.COPYRIGHT 2024 BY EMMA ROSENBLUM.EXCERPTED BY PERMISSION OF FLATIRON BOOKS, A DIVISION OF MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS.
NO PART OF THIS EXCERPT MAY BE REPRODUCED OR REPRINTED WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER.
