When a young lawyer, Ben Louviere, meets a doctor turned whistleblower at a scientific conference in Washington DC, his mission is to shut her up.
The company they work for has a breakthrough to announce: a new vaccine to protect millions of lives. An international medical trial has found it safe and effective, and the shot’s all set for government approval with only ten days left before it’s licensed.
But there’s trouble in San Francisco at the trial’s flagship clinical center, where physician Sumiko Honda claims research results were altered and a suspicious number of patients went missing. So, the company sends Louviere on a special assignment — to keep her quiet, one way or another.
In a web of suspense, woven from sex, lies, and murder, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer introduces a character for our time: a hot, smart, but ethically challenged man, unsure of what’s right and what’s wrong.
“From the moment I ‘met’ him, standing on the corner, sweating through his Donna Karan suit, I knew he would make for great reading. And I was right.”—Claire Wachtel
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When a young lawyer, Ben Louviere, meets a doctor turned whistleblower at a scientific conference in Washington DC, his mission is to shut her up.
The company they work for has a breakthrough to announce: a new vaccine to protect millions of lives. An international medical trial has found it safe and effective, and the shot’s all set for government approval with only ten days left before it’s licensed.
But there’s trouble in San Francisco at the trial’s flagship clinical center, where physician Sumiko Honda claims research results were altered and a suspicious number of patients went missing. So, the company sends Louviere on a special assignment — to keep her quiet, one way or another.
In a web of suspense, woven from sex, lies, and murder, award-winning investigative reporter Brian Deer introduces a character for our time: a hot, smart, but ethically challenged man, unsure of what’s right and what’s wrong.
“From the moment I ‘met’ him, standing on the corner, sweating through his Donna Karan suit, I knew he would make for great reading. And I was right.”—Claire Wachtel