Korte beschrijving/Annotatie

Roman over een compliance officer in de gezondheidszorg die in een kwaliteitsnorm een achteraf gefabriceerde appendix ontdekt. De nasleep ontvouwt zich via nauwkeurige documentatie, interne repercussies, een klokkenluidersklacht en een onderzoek dat ook door een journalist wordt gevolgd. Over meerdere jaren toont de tekst een trage institutionele afrekening en het moeizame proces om eerlijkere structuren op te bouwen. Centraal staan integriteit binnen organisaties, de gevolgen van interne tegenspraak en het zorgvuldige, weinig zichtbare werk waarmee betrouwbaarheid van binnenuit wordt bewaakt.

Tekst achterflap

On a Tuesday afternoon, compliance officer Mara Voss finds one sentence in a healthcare quality standard that shouldn't exist the trace of an appendix fabricated after the fact, meant for no one to notice.

What follows is not a dramatic exposure but a quiet, exacting one: careful documentation, an office moved to a room without a window, a performance review marked down, a phone call that starts an investigation she never asked to begin.

Below the threshold follows Mara through years of institutional reckoning a whistleblower complaint, a journalist circling the same sentence from another angle, a reckoning that arrives slowly and then all at once and into the un-glamorous work of building something more honest in its place. It is a novel about the people who make institutions trustworthy from the inside: not through heroism, but through the discipline of getting the small things right, year after year, long after anyone is watching.

Beschrijving

On a Tuesday afternoon, compliance officer Mara Voss finds one sentence in a healthcare quality standard that shouldn't exist the trace of an appendix fabricated after the fact, meant for no one to notice.

What follows is not a dramatic exposure but a quiet, exacting one: careful documentation, an office moved to a room without a window, a performance review marked down, a phone call that starts an investigation she never asked to begin.

Below the threshold follows Mara through years of institutional reckoning a whistleblower complaint, a journalist circling the same sentence from another angle, a reckoning that arrives slowly and then all at once and into the un-glamorous work of building something more honest in its place. It is a novel about the people who make institutions trustworthy from the inside: not through heroism, but through the discipline of getting the small things right, year after year, long after anyone is watching.

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