It is a sharp takedown of 21st century corporate culture that serves as something of a warning-our seemingly small individual choices can eventually have much larger consequences than we ever could have known. Staten Island author Rob Hart has another hit on his hands and Hollywood is taking notice yet again. The Warehouse is funny and bleak, putting forth an exaggerated but nevertheless still plausible take on the direction our world seems to be traveling. That’s the perspective we get from Gibson Wells, and it is vital to the novel’s success. It illustrates that greed knows no boundaries, and that even those with the best of intentions can eventually wind up making the most reprehensible of choices so long as they can talk themselves into believing that it is for some nebulous greater good.

He's worked as a book publisher, a political reporter, and a communications director for a politician and was a commissioner for the city of New York. He also co-wrote Scott Free with James Patterson. That's the real power in something like The Warehouse. Rob Hart is the author of the Ash McKenna crime series and the short-story collection Take-Out. The world has been ravaged by global warming. Set in a futuristic America, Paxton and Zinnia have both been hired by Cloud, a world-dominant corporation that provides its employees with on-site housing, entertainment, and health services.

The Warehouse brings a keen satiric edge to its rendition of a corporate dystopia. The Warehouse by Rob Hart is something of a mixture between Antz, 1984, and Fahrenheit 451. That’s what Rob Hart has done with his new novel.

And Paxton, with his all-access security credentials, might just be her meal ticket.Īs Paxton and Zinnia's agendas place them on a collision course, they're about to learn just how far the Cloud will go to make the world a better place.Some of the best speculative fiction comes when a writer is able to extrapolate forward in a manner that is both engaging and plausible. Better still, through his work he meets Zinnia, who fills him with hope for their shared future.Įxcept that Zinnia is not what she seems. Read 1,839 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. But compared to what's left outside, perhaps Cloud isn't so bad. The Warehouse by Rob Hart The Warehouse book. The company has dozens of self-inclosed campuses across the country. Paxton never thought he'd be working Security for the company that ruined his life, much less that he'd be moving into one of their sprawling live-work facilities. The Warehouse is set about 20-30 years in the future and focuses on an Amazon-like company named Cloud that has ‘revolutionized’ the industry through, among other things, employee ratings and drone deliveries. Yet, beneath the sunny exterior, lurks something far more sinister.

Cloud brands itself not just as an online storefront, but as a global saviour. But what will it cost you?Īmidst the wreckage of America, Cloud reigns supreme. In a world ravaged by bankruptcy and unemployment, Cloud is the only company left worth working for.

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