It is true that relationships in the job can end up not being a raft of oil. Tammy Cohen delves into that sensation to derive this story towards an unsuspected thriller that transcends the work environment to raise the human capacity to surrender to the evil that the title announces.
Initially, everything takes place in a relaxed way, work sets the pace in the office and the evolution of relationships between employees does not go beyond school, the little love affairs, gossip and gossip. The normal thing that can touch us all.
But when the new management arrives at the company, the atmosphere begins to get rarefied at times. The new boss seems to be generating an unusual tension among all those who until recently went out for drinks on Fridays after work.
In principle it is a matter of incentives, of motivating measures to improve productivity, of these new trends to get the best out of each one. However, the sour character of the boss and her manifest manipulative intention begins to awaken feelings unknown until now among the employees themselves.
Small quarrels seem to multiply and strengthen until major causes are declared. However, as you read what happens, you think that there is something else, a kind of current spreads over all those "colleagues", as if the new boss could have removed or forced unrecognizable aspects of each one.
New and tough rules to internalize, the idea of thriving above any other, to what extent can that new perspective bring out the worst in yourself? Ideas such as fear of losing a job or competitiveness as the ultimate notion in any task. Small vicissitudes of our reality taken to this fiction in a distressing extreme.
But the most incredible thing of all is how the plot is conducted. The general psychosis among these workers leads them to dramatic situations where knowing the ultimate truth will be a dilemma for the characters and a real puzzle for a reader trapped between the possible origins of that evil established in the hitherto routine office.
A novel to share with colleagues and to share their intriguing scenes of an authentic psychological thriller, and thus free ourselves from the small daily conflicts. .
You can buy the book Evil, Tammy Cohen's new novel, here: