The Exit Strategy
Silicon Valley investor Ryn Brennan is on the verge of achieving everything she dreamed. She's succeeded in the male-dominated venture capital world, has a supportive husband, and is about to close the deal of her career. Everything is going exactly as planned, until she meets Carly, her husband's mistress, across the negotiating table. Carly clawed her way back from being a teenage runaway to become an accomplished scientist, caring single mom, and co-founder of her startup. Once she marries her loving fiancé, she'll secure the complete family she craves. But she's blindsided to discover her not so perfect fiancé is already married—to Ryn, her company's biggest investor. In an industry full of not-so-subtle sexism, can the two women rise above, and work together to overcome heartbreak, and ensure their success?
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We spend 40+hours a week in the workplace. Why aren't more books of fiction set there? Luckily, we now have The Exit Strategy by Lainey Cameron, who, in a previous life, was a marketing executive in the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley start-ups. Her debut novel starts out in a typical way. Two intelligent women are pitted against each other: Ryn's a venture capitalist, who has just discovered her husband Todd is having an affair with Carly, the co-founder of the biotech firm which is poised to become Ryn's career-making next investment.
But instead of writing her story as a cut-throat cat-fight, Cameron turns the stereotype on its head and offers up a fast-paced, incisive novel that argues there's a better way. What if these women could somehow join forces, get past the anger and hurt they feel, and work together so both could succeed? Is that possible and what would it take for that to happen? At turns provocative and touching, this novel takes readers inside the misogynistic world of high-level finance, with its behind-closed-door meetings, its sexual innuendos, and its good old boy networks, then offers an alternative glimpse of how business could be changed if women refused to treat other women as competitors and instead viewed them as colleagues. The Exit Strategy is the perfect book for the times we're living through.