what are some good fiction books that include evil corporations?

Question

The evil corporation is a recurring theme in a lot of thriller or science fiction novels. However, it's not a genre in and of itself. Can you name some good fiction books that have an evil corporation as a backdrop and the efforts being taken by the lead characters against it?

Answer 1

I think maybe The Great Divide by T. Davis Bunn is. I haven't read it but it's been on my reading list for years. Bunn is a good author, although most of her books aren't thrillers.

Answer 2

This a book I read last summer.

The Other Twin by Hunter Morgan

A "rehabilitated" serial killer appears to be on the loose again in this debut romantic suspense novel from Morgan (who writes romances as Colleen Faulkner: Shocking Request, etc.). Horrors from the past invade the idyllic beachfront home of newly divorced writer Sydney MacGregor and her feisty teenaged daughter when Sydney learns that her twin sister's murderer, serial killer Charles Eshey, has been released. Her fears intensify after the child of a fellow survivor disappears. Thirty years earlier, Sydney's testimony locked up the Twin Murderer, whose MO involved killing one twin and leaving the other alive. Now Sydney fears that the newly released Eshey, a twin who fathered twins and killed his own brother simply because they "couldn't both exist on this earth," will target her child. The suspense wanes while Sydney tries to prove that Eshey, a wheezy old ex-con with a heart condition, is still dangerous. Desperate, she teams up with true crime author Marshall King. Meanwhile, an unfortunately named lesbian FBI agent, Jessica Manlove, pursues Eshey on her own. All the threads come together in a taut, surprising climax, but even this final twist fails to offset the book's sluggish middle and tepid romance.

Answer 3

There are quite a few so I'll pick out the ones that stand out for me, and why; the others I scan over because either the title is boring, or refers to a subject or genre that I'm not interested in. * Pentagon 13.3 = Not many books use numbers, so this catches my eye. * Some Jeans = Sounds like an 'easy' book to read, a chick lit sort of type - so something easy to enjoy. * That Intimacy = Same as above. * Need Dixie = The incorrect grammar makes me stop to look at it, and when I've paused at a book I normally just read it for the hell of it. * Computer Stepchild = The geek within me makes me notice this one. :P * The Foreheads & * His Artwork = Idk why, but I see these as similarly interesting books. * Playroom 18 = Hm, not sure, but this makes me think of some creepy thriller. *Preference: Asparagus* - Either I'd pick it up for the hell of it, out of curiosity, or just completely ignore - makes me wonder where you got these book names from!

Answer 4

In film--the corporation that sent out the ship in the original "Alien."

In the novel and the film of "2001: A Space Odyssey," the astronauts were unaware of whatever the original intent of their mission was. That's why Hal killed the first astronaut, and why Dave had to disconnect most of Hal's functions.

Answer 5

The Jungle was one of the first books about the evils of corporations.

Answer 6

*Jurassic Park* by Michael Crichton sort of fits the definition. The corporation that made the dinosaurs turned out to be evil because of being naive more than anything else.

Answer 7

Robert Ludlum's trilogy about Jason Bourne -- especially 'The Bourne Identity' -- fall into this category. But I thought the movies starring Matt Damon were much better than the books.

Answer 8

I don't know if there were ever any Resident Evil books, but the games and movies follow this theme and all were good.
-Duo

Answer 9

I'm not sure about corporations, but The Firm is similar to that but with a law firm of course.

Answer 10

Oops. Everything I can think of is non-fiction. And more evil than fiction. . .