Dangerous Doses by Katherine Eban

Dangerous Doses by Katherine Eban

When counterfeit prescription medicine started turning up in the nation's supply and threatening some of the sickest and weakest patients, Katherine Eban went in search of the story. What she found was an unlikely and irresistible group of heroes - five aging South Florida investigators who dubbed themselves the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and held their meetings at Hooters. Working around the clock on cases no one else wanted to tackle, they followed the trail of stolen and contaminated medicine in a takedown eventually dubbed Operation Stone Cold. This riveting page-turner takes us along with the Horsemen as they wade into more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel (Salon) to ultimately uncover $33 million in bad medicine and make more than sixty arrests.
In a style reminiscent of some of the best detective storytellers, Eban takes us breathlessly through robberies, back-room deals, cluttered and dirty warehouses, crooked dealers, sociopathic profiteers, shell companies, and state and federal laws so porous that convicted felons can become prescription-drug brokers.--The Boston Globe
In her vibrant tale, Eban introduces us to these people and makes the message clear: It shouldn't happen to anyone, and it could happen to you.--The Washington Post Book World

Katherine Eban, an investigative medical reporter and a Rhodes Scholar, has worked for the New York Times, New York, New York Observer, and ABC News. Her articles have appeared in the Nation, Playboy, the New Yorker, Vogue, and Glamour, and she is the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn.

Eban, Katherine: - Katherine Eban is a Rhodes Scholar with an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She has been covering medical fraud and health care issues for The Nation, The New Republic, Playboy, The New Yorker, Vogue, Glamour, and the New York Times Magazine. She worked as an investigations reporter for the New York Times, the New York Observer, and has been a contributing editor to New York Magazine. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband and Newfoundland puppy named Lola.

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ISBN 13	9780156030854
ISBN 10	0156030853
Titel	Dangerous Doses
Autor	Katherine Eban
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Ecco Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-05-01
Seitenanzahl	512
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