THE ARC GRID
A BUSINESS THRILLER ABOUT LEADERSHIP, SABOTAGE AND THE
SYSTEMS THAT HOLD US TOGETHER
A modern business thriller with real-world relevance written for leaders, professionals,
and the classrooms shaping tomorrow’s decision-makers, as well as readers
who appreciate a powerful, well-crafted story.
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The Stakes Are Set
NovaVolt wins a defining government contract triggering a political and economic battle over who will control the future of America's power grid, and whether free and open markets will be allowed to exist.
Pressure Without Violence
As NovaVolt pushes forward, political theater, regulatory maneuvering, and dark money campaigns close in where agendas matter more than facts, and leadership, alignment, and resolve are put to the test.
The Line Is Crossed
A winter storm exposes the truth: NovaVolt's opponents cross into sabotage, risking public safety to stop the ARC Grid. An anonymous warning makes one thing clear this is far from over.
The Breaking Point
With the ARC Grid pushed beyond its limits, the final consequences come into focus. Alliances fracture, truths surface, and NovaVolt must decide what it is willing to sacrifice as control, accountability, and the future of the system collide.
What This Book Is and Why it Matters
What This Book Is About
The ARC Grid is a business thriller about a company racing to build America's first open, plug-and-play intelligent energy network and the powerful interests determined to stop it. When NovaVolt's launch is hit by sabotage, political maneuvering, dark-money interference, labor unrest, and coordinated cyber-attacks, its leaders must hold their system together while the forces around them fracture.
The story follows the executives, engineers, operators, and analysts fighting to protect the ARC Grid and the nation's emerging energy infrastructure from a shadow coalition that thrives on chaos, misinformation, and economic instability.
The novel opens with a targeted drone strike on NovaVolt's newly onshored production facility a scenario that once seemed unthinkable but now mirrors the physical-digital threats facing modern industry.
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Three Purposes. One Powerful Story.
THE THRILLER
A Modern Business Thriller
- High-stakes leadership
- Sabotage & misinformation
- AI, tariffs, supply chains, automation
- Eco-terrorism & political pressure
- Cyber-physical threats to infrastructure
- A race to launch America's first intelligent energy network
If you love realistic, systems-driven business fiction, this is for you.
FOR BUSINESS SCHOOLS
A Teaching Tool for Modern Management
Used for:
- Leadership
- Operations & systems thinking
- Continuous improvement
- Strategy & decision-making
- Cross-functional coordination & alignment
Shows Lean, Agile, and continuous improvement taught through an engaging business novel.
INSIDE AMERICAN INDUSTRY
A Thoughtful Examination of the Forces Shaping Business
- Onshoring and Reindustrialization
- Energy Transition & Grid Modernization
- Workforce & Labor Dynamics
- Political & Economic Extremes
- AI-Enabled Manufacturing & Supply Chain Realities
Ideal for leaders, policymakers, educators, and students.
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A compelling thriller.
A practical business management teaching tool.
A story about the pressures shaping America’s future.
A reflection of the challenges facing modern American industry
and a roadmap for those ready to lead through them.
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