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A dangerous drug is spreading through Washington, D.C.—can Marko Zorn take down the company behind it? Washington, D.C. homicide detective Marko Zorn takes on a far-reaching, complicated investigation when a narcotic more deadly than fentanyl spreads across the city, causing countless fatalities. His search for the people behind the off-label drug leads him to a Big Pharma company run by mysterious, psychopathic twin brothers. Anyone who crosses them is dead. Marko discovers that the company will soon release another dangerous prescription opioid analgesic, but when the company learns that this information has been leaked, more bodies pile up. Let down by his higher-ups, Marko sets off to solve the deadly ring of crime that now surrounds him, all while evading repeated attempts to kill him. Marko will need all his wits, skills, and contacts both inside and outside of the law to shut down the twin brothers'criminal drug empire. Can a painting from a major art theft decades earlier provide the key to how Marko can cripple the whole operation? Only if Marko isn't killed first.Perfect for fans of David Baldacci and Daniel Silva While the novels in the Marko Zorn Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:The Reflecting Pool Head Shot Firetrap

James Rocasolano, a renowned scientist, discovers the cure for HIV after a couple of tries. What he is unaware of is that there are many financial interests involved….and this is where trouble begins. The Black Ambar Corporation, which represents the interests of the pharmaceutical industry, intends to continue profiting from the sale of chronic treatments. James Rocasolano's cure is in their way…so they try to assassinate him, but the question is, do they succeed? It has a very elaborate, dizzying plot, with many twists and turns, and a totally unexpected ending. When you least expect it, everything you thought was going to happen, jumps into the air and goes in another direction. Nothing appears to be as you would expect. There are murders, conspiracies, love stories, suspense, betrayals, sex, etc. ESCRIDUENDE AWARD TO THE BEST INTRIGUE NOVEL AT THE 2015 BOOK FAIR. INFINITE AWARD FOR THE BEST THRILLER NOVEL 2016.'The novel by the young Juan Martin Garcia reveals a narrative mastery. This is not common at the author's age.'José Menéndes - former Supreme Court Magistrate.'We are facing a novel that does not detract from the latest works of such noted authors like Stephen King or Dan Brown.'Gabriel Neila - Professor of the Literature University of Alcalá.'Viral Conspiracy'is a dynamic, fun adventure written with a carefree style'Vicente Baratas – writer

Tchétchène d'origine russe et ancien trafiquant d'armes repenti, Ivan Gouchenko est abattu à son domicile. Le meurtre de ce PDG d'une division turque de la société Apobiotech Pharma, une transaction de 40 millions de dollars, des allégations de blanchiment de fonds et le vol d'un virus prennent une dimension internationale. Pour percer le mystère, Fisher, directeur des opérations canadiennes chez Neuro-Alpha, demande au docteur Derren d'accéder à la mémoire d'un homme : Jalel Al-Hariz, un des terroristes les plus recherchés. Une mission de routine pour un analyste aux renseignements criminels. Une mission des plus palpitantes pour un neurologue. Sauf que la belle-fille du trafiquant repenti se trouve au coeur de l'affaire. Et que l'ancienne flamme de Fisher est à son tour accusée de fraude. Après Memoriam, on retrouve avec bonheur le tandem Fisher-Derren qui n'a de cesse de dénouer cet imbroglio de Kilis à Montréal, de la détresse d'un camp de réfugiés au laboratoire aseptisé de Bio Pharma. Et cela, quitte à défricher les mémoires les plus violentes, quitte à voler des souvenirs par effraction.

The story of an apprentice chemist whose uncle's worthless medicine becomes a spectacular marketing success, Tono-Bungay earned H. G. Wells immediate acclaim when it appeared in 1909. It remains a sparkling chronicle of chicanery and human credulity, and is today regarded by many as Wells's greatest novel. As Andrea Barrett observes in her Introduction, “Through its detailed, often brilliant descriptions and powerful imagery, [Tono-Bungay] slyly satirizes British imperial policy as a whole. The insights into class, money, advertising, public relations, and the power of the press still ring horrifyingly true.”

Tono-Bungay is a 1909 novel by H. G. Wells. Narrated by George Ponderevo, who is persuaded to help sell Tono-Bungay, a medicine created by his uncle. Although he believes it to be a swindle, he spends seven years on the business before quitting and finding a new job in aeronautics, designing destroyers. This book has been called Wells'most artistic book.

Author Dan Travis, a specialist on notorious unsolved mysteries, is on a book tour when a cryptic message plunges him into a silent war hinging on an incriminating data file. Finding it is Travis'only hope for surviving a deadly cross country chase. But to do so, he must discover the link between an extraordinary cover-up by Big Pharma and the assassination of JFK. The key lies within a secret underground of doctors sworn to an ancient oath. James Sheridan's crackling prose and driving narrative make this novel a white-knuckle ride through America's hidden corridors of power.•Please note this edition contains editorial revisions that address issues raised in the early reviews.

In this frightening, high-concept science fiction thriller, a mute man must confront the horrors of organ farming on a deep-sea oilrig. Longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize SA Nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans'Will have you ripping through the pages. Part thriller, part horror, part speculative fiction: this gripping read goes to the heart of ethical quandaries, forcing the reader to ask:'What if it were me?'- Sunday Times (SA) Malachi, a mute thirty-year-old man, has just received an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as a warden on a top-secret organ-farming project, Raizier Pharmaceuticals will graft Malachi a new tongue. So Malachi finds himself on an oilrig among warlords and mass murderers. But are the prisoner-donors as evil as Raizier says? Do they deserve their fate? As doubt starts to grow, the stories of the desperate will not be silenced – not even his own. Covertly Malachi comes to know them, even the ones he fears, and he must make a choice – if he wants to save one, he must save them all. And risk everything, including himself.'Sharp and compact but devastatingly poetic. This book packs real power into every page.'- Charlie Human'Farren has created an extraordinary narrator in Malachi... [An] intense and memorable [read].'- SFX

In this frightening, high-concept science fiction thriller, a mute man must confront the horrors of organ farming on a deep-sea oilrig. Longlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize SA Nominated for the 2020 Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans'Will have you ripping through the pages. Part thriller, part horror, part speculative fiction: this gripping read goes to the heart of ethical quandaries, forcing the reader to ask:'What if it were me?'Sunday Times (SA) Malachi, a mute thirty-year-old man, has just received an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as a warden on a top-secret organ-farming project, Raizier Pharmaceuticals will graft Malachi a new tongue. So Malachi finds himself on an oilrig among warlords and mass murderers. But are the prisoner-donors as evil as Raizier says? Do they deserve their fate? As doubt starts to grow, the stories of the desperate will not be silenced – not even his own. Covertly Malachi comes to know them, even the ones he fears, and he must make a choice – if he wants to save one, he must save them all. And risk everything, including himself.'Sharp and compact but devastatingly poetic. This book packs real power into every page.'Charlie Human'Farren has created an extraordinary narrator in Malachi... [An] intense and memorable [read].'SFX

Inspektor Sperling ist Bohemien, Opernliebhaber und Dackelbesitzer: ein Wiener aus vergangenen Tagen. Gerechtigkeit ist ihm wichtiger als die Einhaltung des Rechts. Und so gelingt es ihm nicht, die junge Alice abzuwimmeln, als die ihn darum bittet, ihren Vater zu schützen. Alice'Vater hat ein Heilmittel für Schizophrenie gefunden, weshalb ein Pharmakonzern ihn und das Medikament vernichten will. Als Sperling erkennt, welch grauenvoller Plan hinter all dem steht, ist ihm jedes Mitteln recht, um den Wahnsinn zu stoppen.

“A cloning story that reads like a thriller… [for] fans of science fiction and corporate espionage.” —Library JournalMeet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him.The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he's been replaced—not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife—since a revolutionary drug called Meld can transfer his consciousness and memories to his copy.From a luxurious apartment, he watches the clone navigate his day-to-day life. But soon Jeremiah discovers that examining himself from an outsider's perspective isn't what he thought it would be, and he watches in horror as “his” life spirals out of control. ViMed needs the experiment to succeed—they won't call it off and are prepared to remove any obstacle. With his family in danger, Jeremiah needs to finally find the courage to face himself head-on.

Dr Frank Garfield has found a cure for cancer, but cut-throat businesses are looking to profit on the research and don't care who they trample over to do so. Paediatric oncologist Dr Frank Garfield has discovered a genetic cure for cancer that can save his young patients. But his mentor, Nobel Prize laureate Dr Jackson Atlas, believes his research is like blood in the water for profit-hungry drug companies that will twist and weaponize it. UNICO Pharmaceuticals CEO Leona Lang is desperate to find a new product, and Frank's formula could be the answer. But Jackson is an obstacle. Dalton Lang, Leona's sociopathic son, has been tasked with seducing Frank into joining UNICO. His first steps are to eliminate Jackson and make it look like a burglary. With Jackson gone, will Frank be persuaded to join UNICO or let his research, which could blow apart the cancer industry, die? The lives of innocent children hang in the balance. Frank can save them... but at what cost?

Deixar os militares para um trabalho menos perigoso como guarda-costas era tudo o que Nathan Mason estava procurando. Difícil e às vezes arrogante, Nathan logo percebeu que estava acima de sua cabeça. Contratado pelo poderoso Arthur Madison, um gigante da indústria farmacêutica, ele foi encarregado do maior patrimônio de Arthur: proteger o único filho de Arthur, Christian, o herdeiro da fortuna de Madison. Um ataque à mansão do herdeiro logo coloca em risco a sua vida e a de Christian. Agora Nathan deve colocar todo o seu treinamento e habilidades para o teste, a fim de salvar o herdeiro. Mesmo que Nathan seja capaz e preparado, são suas emoções e os sentimentos que ele sente pelo jovem que certamente o matara. Ele deve deixar de lado esses sentimentos, se quiser salvar Christian, aquele que roubou seu coração.

According to Wikipedia:'Tono-Bungay (1909), by H. G. Wells, is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay, a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous cure-all, the creation of his ambitious uncle Edward. The quack remedy Tono-Bungay seems to have been based upon the patent medicines Carter's Little Liver Pills and Dr. Williams'Pink Pills for Pale People, marketed by John Morgan Richards. As the tonic prospers, George experiences a swift rise in social status, elevating him to riches and opportunities that he had never imagined, nor indeed desired.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Tono-Bungay'from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of H. G. Wells'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Wells includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.eBook features: • The complete unabridged text of ‘Tono-Bungay'• Beautifully illustrated with images related to Wells's works • Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook • Excellent formatting of the text Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Le Mimumab, médicament du laboratoire pharmaceutique Gretlife le plus vendu au monde, est-il vraiment sans danger? Ce n'est pas ce que soutient le docteur Julien Casson. Son étude a révélé que ce médicament entraînait de graves complications neurologiques. À la demande du laboratoire, le docteur Michel Rouault et Marie Badert mèneront leur enquête. Les personnages de ce thriller épidémiologique devront remettre en question leurs ambitions professionnelles et leurs certitudes personnelles jusqu'à se confronter à leurs désirs les plus profonds. Jusqu'où seront-ils prêts à aller pour que n'éclate pas la pire des vérités?

Considered one of Wells most successful attempts at a social novel in the vein of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Wells's tale is a panoramic view of an unravelling society. A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines. The story follows the life of a young man, George, and his Uncle Edward. Edward invents an elixir called TONO-BUNGAY and hires his nephew George to help build the company. The medicine becomes a huge commercial success, causing George to reflect on the sickness at the heart of a society that lets itself be so easily duped. He begins to search for a new order to replace the old one, a quest that leads him to dangerous aeronautical experiments. At the end of the novel, George sails down the River Thames to the open sea, toward the hopeful new world that awaits him.

The decisions that we make, as small as they may be, set the course of our life. When Nora Clayton, a magnificent executive vice president of an important pharmaceutical Company in New York, has to fire ten thousand workers who will be substituted with sophisticated machines, she triggers the rage of Bonnie Larson, a woman who is invisible to society, but who comes from a long line of evil witches. After a long time of not having used her magic, she decides to curse Nora, who will watch how her life takes a 180º turn. The people she shares her comfortable life with don't recognize her, her luxurious apartment on the Upper East Side no longer belongs to her and the only option she is left with is returning to Kutztown (Pennsylvania), her hometown, and to redo the inexistent relationship with her mother and live a life she had not chosen. A story about parallel worlds, about the decisions we don't make, about memories, life, love and, in the end, fate. A lesson on life in every page.

Ten years ago, Benjamin Romanov left behind a world of violence and intrigue for a normal life. Now he's living the American dream as the chief technology officer at PharmGen, the world's largest provider of vaccinations. The perks are beyond amazing—a luxury penthouse, fast car, and his pick of women. The only downside to his job is reporting employees for less than scrupulous e-mail practices, and Dr. Tanner is next on his list… until he stops a security guard from killing her in her lab.Microbiologist Morgan Tanner never meant for her discovery of a primitive virus to be used to create a world-wide epidemic. And now that she knows PharmGen's intentions, she will do anything to expose them for the monsters they are—including tipping off the competition. But when her life is threatened, she has to convince the one person she can't stand—the infuriatingly sexy Benjamin Romanov—to keep her alive.With time running out, Benjamin must find a way to protect the curvy doctor while keeping his distance… and expose PharmGen to the world before the deadly virus is unleashed.

A new twist in thrillers, The Oslo Conspiracy is certain to captivate readers who like their heroes rich, handsome, caring, and very, very sexy.In The Oslo Conspiracy, a Norwegian scientist is found dead in a hotel room in Rome. Before she is strangled, she manages to scribble a few words on a piece of paper.Half-Norwegian, half-Italian Milo Cavalli is sent to help out with the investigation in Italy, since he is familiar with Italian red tape. Milo finds the note from the scientist, and he also learns that earlier her kid brother had been killed in a schoolyard.Milo becomes obsessed with finding out if there is a link between the two murders—the sister strangled in Italy and the brother shot in Norway. And he is willing to use his vast fortune and special connections—especially when those connections involve beautiful women—to find the answers.

Master storyteller Arthur Hailey's New York Times–bestselling novel takes readers behind the scenes of the billion-dollar pharmaceutical drug industry It starts as a routine case: Mary Rowe contracts hepatitis from unclean drinking water, and the infection should work its way out of her system in a few days. But when the illness worsens and she slips into a coma, Dr. Andrew Jordan is forced to tell Rowe's husband that his wife is dying. It's 1957 and there simply isn't a drug that can save her. Pharmaceutical saleswoman Celia de Grey then offers Dr. Jordan a sample of an experimental drug that cures the dying woman overnight. This marks the beginning of an epic journey—and a great romance—for a dedicated internist and an idealistic, ambitious woman. The miracle cure establishes de Grey as a rising star within the industry. But as the years pass, she and her husband, Dr. Jordan, begin to realize that her bosses are driven not by the desire to eradicate disease, but by greed. Millions can be made in matters of life and death—for those who don't mind getting blood on their hands.

A fictional tale of a thirty-something biker who becomes inadvertently involved in an illegal drug operation that goes bad. He escapes death by going overboard near an island, is rescued by vacationing sailors and returns to South Florida. There he contacts and is hired by a wealthy Palm Beach family to pursue locating their son who went missing after the failed drug operation. The missing son is involved with dangerous people running drugs from South America through the Caribbean to South Florida and is being forced to smuggle cocaine into the States. The protagonist and his best friend, Tom, are provided with a fast boat, money and guns by the father, Mr. Saxton, in order to effect the rescue of the scion, Bruce. The two bikers then travel to the islands following one lead and another until they locate the hostage and using skill, stealth and determination, return him to his father. Ultimately, the two return to Florida to collect their reward, secure their long term plans and then head West on another adventure.

This Christmas, the biggest gift is justice: Third in the exhilarating three-part series by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author! Victory is sweet, but for the Sisterhood and their allies, it's also short-lived. Now that they've convinced some coldblooded slum landlords to pay very dearly for their crimes, the Men of the Sisterhood are ready for another mission. While Jack Emery prepares a Christmas feast at his house, the gang gathers to provide one of their own with a yuletide miracle. Nikki, Jack's wife, has been handling class-action lawsuits filed by victims of Andover Pharmaceuticals. A new leukemia drug was supposed to save children's lives. Instead, it destroyed them. Andover is fighting the suit with all its wealth and influence, and Nikki is losing hope. It's time for Jack and his crew to give Andover a taste of its own medicine—and show them that messing with the Sisterhood's other half has all kinds of unpleasant side effects... “The Men of the Sisterhood series has it all.” —RT Book Reviews

Tony Colletti, a good suburban cop and father, finds himself drawn into the controversy over vaccines and autism when he tries to uncover the truth behind the shadowy Vaccine Court. His dangerous journey forces him to will risk his life and honor while confronting corrupt government officials, the powerful pharmaceutical industry, and disturbing elements of his own past. Colletti and his allies battle spies, Russian gangsters, and sexual predators preying upon disabled children. They go to war against foes who manipulate the media, fabricate scientific research, and viciously attack those who question vaccine safety.In this gripping novel, government and industry have formed an unholy alliance that places profit ahead of children's health, one that makes ordinary Americans fight back to protect their families and the ideals of justice. Echoing the infamous Minimata, Japan, mercury poisoning tragedy, The Autism War shows how history can repeat when humanity fails to heed the lessons of the past.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller! Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered “Gerritsen has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists.”—Associated PressA beautiful young woman's corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets—except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won't listen. One of the town's most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat's chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her. “[Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes.”—Chicago Tribune

Ronny hat es nicht immer leicht gehabt im Leben, aber plötzlich wendet sich das Blatt. Er findet einen Job, der mehr als gut bezahlt ist und er kann dabei auch noch Gutes tun. Für einen Pharmakonzern, der neue Wege gehen will, soll er Albträume bearbeiten, damit Patienten auch ohne Tabletten wieder durchschlafen können. Viel zu spät kommen ihm erste Zweifel. Ein bodenloser Abgrund tut sich vor ihm auf – und er steht hilflos davor! Hanna Thierfelder ist vielen Lesern durch ihre eher ungewöhnliche Art Reiseführer und Reiseberichte neu zu interpretieren bekannt. Mit „Am Anfang stand ein Traum“ legt sie ihren ersten Roman vor, und wieder möchte sie genreuntypisch schreiben – weder Krimi, noch Science Fiction, noch ein typischer Medizin-Thriller, aber von jedem für jeden ist etwas dabei!

In Danielle Steel's beloved #1 New York Times bestselling novel, two strangers meet unexpectedly and fall in love in the City of Light. As president of a major pharmaceutical empire, Peter Haskell has everything: power, position, and a family that means everything to him. Compromise has been key in Peter Haskell's life, and integrity is the base on which he lives. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambition and career until her soul is bone-dry. She is trapped in a web of duty and obligation, married to a man she once loved and no longer even knows.Accidentally, they meet in Paris. Their totally different lives converge for one magical moment in the Place Vendôme, as Olivia carefully, silently, steps out of her life and walks away. Peter follows her, and in a café in Montmartre, their hearts are laid bare. Peter, once so certain of his path, is suddenly faced with a professional future in jeopardy. Olivia is no longer sure of anything except that she can't go on anymore.Five days in Paris is all they have. They go back to their separate lives, but nothing is the same. Everything they believe is put on the line, until they each realize they must stand fast against compromise and face life's challenges head-on.Danielle Steel's classic novel is about honor and commitment, love and integrity—and the strength to find hope again. Five Days in Paris will change your life forever.BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Hotel Vendome.

„Ihre Augen glitzerten gefährlich. ‚Du hast doch keine Angst vor mir, oder?‘, fragte sie. Der Klang ihrer Stimme ließ ihn schaudern. Das Spiel hatte begonnen.“ Hongkong, Sitz eines internationalen Pharmakonzerns. Robert Faber, Vorstandsvorsitzender und Hauptaktionär, kann sein Glück kaum fassen: Einer seiner Wissenschaftler hat eine revolutionäre Entdeckung gemacht – der neue Wirkstoff Rebu 12 stoppt den Alterungsprozess! Das Milliardengeschäft mit der ewigen Jugend ist zum Greifen nah. Doch Faber ahnt nicht, dass die Information trotz höchster Geheimhaltung schon in falsche Hände geraten ist – und eine skrupellose Sekte sich bereit macht, alles zu tun, um die Formel der Makellosigkeit unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen … Fesselnd, dramatisch, eiskalt: Der Thriller über die Schattenseiten der Schönheit und die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. „Nicht Krimis à la Agatha Christie sind Astrid Kortens Metier, sondern Gänsehautthriller im Stil von Minette Walters.“ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Jetzt als eBook: „Tödliche Perfektion - Poesie der Macht“ von Astrid Korten. dotbooks – der eBook-Verlag.

It's the night the President has resigned. In a Manhattan town house, the head of Lenox Pharmaceuticals, the world's most powerful drug company, lies dead. Through the morning darkness, security chief Mike Acela drives his BMW to the scene. Mike's job has been to defend the Chairman against all enemies. But this street-smart, battle-hardened former FBI agent is about to find out how little he knows about his mentor, his job, or the dangers swirling all around him.Somewhere within Lenox's global web of government contracts and cutting-edge medications, the Chairman kept a terrible secret. A secret that has already started changing the world. To find out how the Chairman really died, Mike must uncover the truth behind Project HR-109. But what the Lenox scientists discovered is worth killing for. And the killing has just begun.

Max Pauling, of Murder in Foggy Bottom, is coaxed out of a restless retirement by another'ex-'CIA colleague. The case that tempts him is one involving a large American pharmaceutical firm that may be using a German company as a front to get around the U.S. scientific and technical embargo of Cuba. What's at stake? An ex-senator, who heads up a drug company, is after big game: the surprising and stunning medical research being conducted by the Cubans to develop a more effective anticancer drug. Max, who is among other things a pilot, is assured that this will be a purely private assignment—no assassinations, no government to subvert, no informers to turnjust a few easy flights and a little time in the sun. Once in Havana, he makes contact with a ravishing Cuban-American woman who is to be his'translator.'Soon, he finds himself hunted as an assassin in a place where murder is sanctioned for a greater good, or greater greed, and those caught in the crossfire are as quickly consumed as a frozen daiquiri.

A semi-autobiographical satire of Edwardian advertising and patent-medicines.

Corporate greed meets scientific altruism in Morad Zaffron's white-knuckle thriller, The Cure. Dr. Susan Conner, a beautiful but traumatized, drug-dependent widow, goes to work for a global pharmaceutical company dispensing a cure for a lethal virus. At first patients get better, but soon they begin vanishing or dying, and Susan suddenly finds her own life on the line. Believing her salvation might lie with Dr. Vincent Bach, the young scientist who developed the cure, she is desperate to find him; but she is on the run as a fugitive from the police and the FBI and is also being hunted by assassins hired by the drug corporation. A taut, tense medical drama, The Cure explores big business, new medicine, and whether true love can indeed conquer all.

Now in an alien galaxy,Ichobod and Felix continue their journey spreading a new strain of Blotterbud from the Milky Way. Here they find that Blotterbud, along with all other drugs is legal. Though unknown to the gentle beings known as Hatters who grow food and bud for the whole of space, an evil Pharmaceutical cartel has implanted a destructive gene in the local blotterbud. Now they set off to help the strange Hatters to grow the new more potent blotterbud and tear down the Pharmaceutical giants plan to control the galaxy's drug industry.

Bryn Davis was killed on the job after discovering her bosses were selling a drug designed to resurrect the dead. Now, revived by that same drug, she becomes an undead soldier in a corporate war to take down the very pharmaceutical company responsible for her new condition...

A BRAND NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE NUMBER ONE UK BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES SERIES What if death could be cured by a drug? What if you needed that drug every day... or death would reclaim you? It's not hypothetical to Bryn Davis. It's her so-called life. Bryn Davis is new on the job as a funeral director, but even she knows that once you're dead, you ought to stay that way. But Fairview Mortuary has a hidden backroom business: resurrecting the dead for profit, at extortionate rates. Discovering her boss's secret may cost Bryn more than her life... it may just take away her death, too.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Clay Blackburn has two jobs. Most of the time he's your average bisexual book scout in Berkeley. Some of the time he's… not quite a private detective. He doesn't have a license, he doesn't have a gun, he doesn't have a business card—but people come to him for help and in helping them he comes across more than his fair share of trouble. And trouble finds him seeking the fountain of youth, the myth of paradise, the pie in the sky…The Incredible Double. Clay fights his way through corporate shills, Berkeley loonies, and CEO thugs on his way to understanding the secret of The Double. Follow his journey to a state of Grace, epiphanies, perhaps the meaning of life. This follow-up to The Chandler Apartments, red meat to charter members of the Clay Blackburn cult, is also an excellent introduction to the series. Hill brings back Blackburn's trusty, if goofy sidekicks: Marvin, best friend and lefty soldier of fortune; Bailey Dao, ex-FBI agent; Dino Centro, as smarmy as he is debonair. He also introduces a new cast of bizarre characters: drug casualty turned poet Loose Bruce, conspiracy theorist Larry Sasway, and Grace, the Tallulah Bankhead of Berkeley. Together—and sometimes not so together—they team up to foil Drugstore Wally, the CEO with an evil plan.

ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 5 Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small.In the delectable fifth installment of the bestselling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, our cherished inquisitive heroine returns to investigate a medical mystery.A doctor's career has been ruined by allegations of medical fraud and Isabel cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Besides, Isabel's insatiable interest is piqued and she finds herself asking questions. Would a respected doctor make such a grave mistake? If not, what explains the death of the patient? Clearly, an investigation is in order.Meanwhile, there is her baby Charlie, who needs looking after; her niece Cat who needs someone to mind her deli; and a mysterious composer who has latched on to Jamie, making Isabel decidedly uncomfortable. Whatever the problem, whatever the case, we know we can count on Isabel's instincts to help her find the right solution.

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Against a backdrop of international intrigue and ruthless drug monopolies, award-winning author Davis Bunn delivers an intoxicating page-turner in this redemptive thriller.Multi-billion dollar giant Revell Pharmaceuticals is devouring its competition. A new research breakthrough propels the company into releasing its most profitable product ever. Yet a family crisis confronts them when Kirra Revell, heiress to the empire, goes missing. Taylor Knox, an employee of Revell's latest acquisition, is blackmailed into leading the search. An expert surfer, Taylor pursues the world's biggest waves as a cover, only to be ensnared in a deadly contest of corporate espionage. In the race to find Kirra, everyone's motives are suspect. A Celtic monk's warning only heightens the peril. Is it money, power, passion, or something deeper that compels Taylor to risk everything? From Scotland's holy islands to the rugged Basque coast of Spain, from boardrooms and luxury yachts to the dungeons of America's oldest surviving fortress, the hunt is on. Can Taylor Knox achieve his quest before time runs out for Kirra Revell -- and for himself?

The story of an apprentice chemist whose uncle's worthless medicine becomes a spectacular marketing success, Tono-Bungay earned H. G. Wells immediate acclaim when it appeared in 1909. It remains a sparkling chronicle of chicanery and human credulity, and is today regarded by many as Wells's greatest novel. As Andrea Barrett observes in her Introduction, “Through its detailed, often brilliant descriptions and powerful imagery, [Tono-Bungay] slyly satirizes British imperial policy as a whole.... The insights into class, money, advertising, public relations, and the power of the press still ring horrifyingly true.”This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the original 1909 edition.

E-book extras: The Origins of The Associate.