An investigation into crime and corruption that offers ';a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry' (Buzz Bissinger). Stolen, tainted, and compromised counterfeit medicine has increasingly made its way into a poorly regulated distribution systemreaching vulnerable and unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on it. The heart of the problem lies in South Floridaand Dangerous Doses exposes it through a ';ragtag group of seasoned investigators who seem as if they were cast right out of an episode of The Wire' (U.S. News & World Report). In Katherine Eban's hard-hitting examination of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters, these tireless investigators follow the trail of medication, stolen in a seemingly minor break-in, as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress, as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America's health. Eban's revelatory and damning crusade ';combines investigative diligence, a natural storyteller's gift for narrative, and a consumer advocate's practical prescriptions for what to do about the counterfeit drugs that may have contaminated the supply at your local drug store. The result: A rare literary eventmuckraking with a human face' (Victor Navasky, former publisher of The Nation). ';An expose that wades into more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel, and easily boasts three times the number of sleazebag villains.' Salon.com ';A riveting tale… part detective story, part pharmacological primer.' The New York Sun
