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Clay Carter at the office of the public defender 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 his background, however, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe, a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies...
2) Whiteout
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As a Christmas Eve blizzard blows through Scotland, several people from a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the lab, and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a secret.
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Daniel Ames, an associate with Portland's most prestigious law firm, finds himself fighting to save his reputation and his life when he decides to investigate claims that Gellar Pharmaceuticals, one of the firm's biggest clients, is producing a drug that allegedly causes birth defects.
4) Girl missing
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"The first body is a mystery. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets, except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. The next body is a warning. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. And Kat's chief suspect is one of...
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"Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health developments of the twenty-first century. Today, almost 90 percent of our pharmaceutical market is comprised of generics, the majority of which are manufactured overseas. We have been reassured by our doctors, our pharmacists and our regulators that generic drugs are identical to their brand-name counterparts, just less expensive. But is this really true?...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2021]
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x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most ruthless mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
7) Cure
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New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her career involving the suspected poisoning murder of a CIA agent and possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up stem-cell research labs.
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When beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered in Kenya, her husband John, an amateur gardener and British diplomat, receives another shock--she may have been having an affair with her traveling companion, a respected doctor who is now missing. Hardened, Justin sets out to find Tessa's killers and their motives, but what he learns makes him a suspect among his own colleagues--and a target for his wife's killers.
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"The Nazi regime preached an ideology of physical, mental, and moral purity. But as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping new history, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs. On the eve of World War II, Germany was a pharmaceutical powerhouse, and companies such as Merck and Bayer cooked up cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, to be consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives to millions of German soldiers. In fact,...
10) Whiplash
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Married FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are investigating a rather unusual case: Senator David Hoffman is experiencing a ghostly apparition with possible malicious intent. They're no closer to cracking the case when a call comes in from Connecticut: A top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been found murdered behind the drug company's U.S. headquarters.
11) The codex
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When Maxwell Broadbent and his entire collection of priceless art, gems, and artifacts disappear, his three sons discover a video tape that leads them on a wild chase around the globe in search of their father.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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[2019]
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First edition; First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm.
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"How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country--such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at...
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