Book : Kill Shot A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease -...

-Titulo Original : Kill Shot A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease

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Now in paperback. An award-winning investigative journalists horrifying true crime story of Americas deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis theyd unleashed.Bloodthirsty is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his company the Ferrari of Compounders, it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough tissue around the spine and wormed upward to the deep brain, our control center for balance, breath, and the vital motor functions of life.Now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this tragedy--the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators--and the legal loopholes that allowed it to occur. Kill Shot forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows. Review If you like fast-paced forensic thrillers a la Kathy Reichs, you’ll love this tale of death and mayhem .... A harrowing, fast-paced tale of blind greed and sloppy science. -Kirkus, starred review A gripping journey... Informative and engrossing, this book is a page-turner about a deadly outbreak and a reckless compounding pharmacy. Recommended for fans of true-life medical thrillers.-Library Journal, starred reviewThis detailed account of how greed led to widespread suffering and death grips to the end.-Publishers WeeklyThis unnerving true tale is a crowd-pleaser for fans of true crime and medical mysteries.-Discover Magazines Must-Read Science BooksIn the tradition of the best medical thrillers, Kill Shot is a riveting and harrowing tale of mysterious and lethal infections. But Jason Dearens deeply researched book is more than just a good story-in the end, its also a must-read indictment of our flawed pharmaceutical system and our embarrassingly inadequate regulatory response.-Deborah Blum, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Poison Squad: One Chemists Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of The Twentieth Century A shocking scientific detective story thats impossible to put down. Jason Dearens skill at unraveling a deadly tale of greed and corruption is matched only by his storytelling chops.-Seth Mnookin, New York Times bestselling author of The Panic Virus Kill Shot is a chilling and thrilling yarn that reads like a Michael Crichton medical mystery. The only problem? All of this actually happened, with so many innocent people killed and maimed. This is investigative reporting at its best-poignant, sharp, and powerful enough to catalyze outrage at our sadly broken healthcare system.-James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost ArtEver wonder whether the injectable drug you get at your doctors office is safe? Youll be certain it isnt after reading Kill Shot, a chilling and indelible portrait of human greed, pharmaceutical mayhem and regulatory failure.-Katherine Eban, New York Times bestselling author of Bottle of LiesThis fast-moving and important story reads like a thriller but is all too true. As Jason Dearen makes clear, it could happen again-and probably will, unless we find a way to finally bring strict oversight to a dark corner of the drug industry.-Dan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Toms RiverDearen unfolds his story like the murder mystery it sadly is. Kill Shot also is a post-mortem on a medical system gone alarmingly astray, told by a writer