Pharma

“A withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients … Pharma reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers.” —New York Times Book Review“New information, coupled with Gerald’s dogged reporting, sets Pharma apart from all books on this subject.” —The Washington Standard“Gerald Posner’s unsettling book, five years in the making and buttressed by a trove of documentation, is not only a careful history, it’s also a staggering indictment of pharmaceutical companies… . Very readable.” —Christian Science Monitor“Compelling and enraging … An encyclopedic act of reporting.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“Explosively, even addictively, readable … Fraud, incompetence, conspiracy, avarice: it’s all here.” —Booklist (starred review)“You know the old saying: Timing is everything. That is certainly the case with Gerald Posner … . The timing of Pharma is extraordinary.” —Dallas Morning News“I could not put down Gerald Posner’s Pharma, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans—then blamed the so-called ‘abusers’ instead of their own highly addictive drug. Posner has unearthed important new material that illuminates our national tragedy, crafting a meticulously reported page-turner that is as juicy as it is clear-eyed.” —Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick“A shocking, rousing condemnation of an industry clearly in need of better policing.” —Kirkus “Posner has created a medical leviathan for our times.” —LitHub

Gerald Posner is an award-winning journalist who has written twelve books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed and multiple national bestsellers. His 2015 book, God’s Bankers, a two-hundred-year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Times bestseller. Posner has written for many national magazines and papers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Time, and he has been a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and FOX News. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, author Trisha Posner.

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