{"product_id":"kill-shot-isbn-9780593421352","title":"Kill Shot","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback. An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus \u003ci\u003eExserohilum rostratum\u003c\/i\u003e. The death count: 100 and rising. \u003ci\u003eKill Shot \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 they'd unleashed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, 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. \u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e forces a powerful but unchecked industry out of the shadows.\"If you like fast-paced forensic thrillers á la Kathy Reichs, you’ll love this tale of death and mayhem .... A harrowing, fast-paced tale of blind greed and sloppy science.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Kirkus,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This detailed account of how greed led to widespread suffering and death grips to the end.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This unnerving true tale is a crowd-pleaser for fans of true crime and medical mysteries.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscover\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine's Must-Read Science Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the tradition of the best medical thrillers, \u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting and harrowing tale of mysterious and lethal infections. But Jason Dearen's deeply researched book is more than just a good story—in the end, it's also a must-read indictment of our flawed pharmaceutical system and our embarrassingly inadequate regulatory response.\"—\u003cb\u003eDeborah Blum, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of The Twentieth Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A shocking scientific detective story that's impossible to put down. Jason Dearen's skill at unraveling a deadly tale of greed and corruption is matched only by his storytelling chops.\"—\u003cb\u003eSeth Mnookin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Panic Virus\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003cb\u003eJames Nestor, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBreath: The New Science of a Lost Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ever wonder whether the injectable drug you get at your doctor's office is safe? You'll be certain it isn't after reading \u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e, a chilling and indelible portrait of human greed, pharmaceutical mayhem and regulatory failure.\"—\u003cb\u003eKatherine Eban, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBottle of Lies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This 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.\"—\u003cb\u003eDan Fagin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eToms River\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dearen unfolds his story like the murder mystery it sadly is. \u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e also is a post-mortem on a medical system gone alarmingly astray, told by a writer who is as skilled at storytelling as fact-gathering, and whose journalism helped expose the perpetrators.\"—\u003cb\u003eLarry Tye, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDemagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A shocking, fascinating, edge-of-your seat thrill ride, \u003ci\u003eKill Shot \u003c\/i\u003eexposes the dark underbelly of American medicine. It's a must-read for anyone interested in the future of healthcare.\"—\u003cb\u003eMatt McCarthy, MD, author of Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ace investigative reporting, meticulous science writing, and Agatha Christie suspense power \u003ci\u003eKill Shot\u003c\/i\u003e, a potent exposé on the deadly consequences of greed and lax oversight in the drug industry. Dearen’s in-depth tale of how fungal meningitis spread from one compounding pharmacy to kill and maim Americans in multiple states is an indictment of self-regulation and a call to action to protect patients from even greater harm.\"—\u003cb\u003eCynthia Barnett, author of \u003ci\u003eMirage, Blue Revolution, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Rain: A Natural and Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Dearen \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press and was a 2018-2019 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. His work appears regularly in hundreds of newspapers and websites, including \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He has twice been nominated by the Associated Press for the Pulitzer Prize. Dearen grew up in California and attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. 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