Employee of the Year

A mystery of corporate America, Employee of the Year takes place in a Los Angeles call center where danger lurks behind every cubicle.Temo McCarthy is a humble phone agent in the Passion Financial collections department. He spends his days "dialing deadbeats", convincing broke, desperate credit card customers to pay their overdue balances. Temo wants to win the Employee of the Year award, a $100,000 prize that goes to the top agent in the call center. This award will give his young family a foundation he himself never had growing up in a broken home. The week before Passion's CEO is set to announce the Employee of the Year, Temo finds his main rival for the award gunned down in the company parking lot.As the police investigation proceeds, Temo realizes he must find the killer in order to prove his own innocence. "Dmitri Ragano is a creative, unconventional author who knows how to tell a story that other people aren't telling. He takes the hooks of the mystery/thriller genre and fills it in with ambitious themes and compelling original characters. Prepare to be intrigued and entertained!"-- Seth Harwood, author of Jack Wakes Up and Young Junius.