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BLIND TRIAL
When a young lawyer meets a doctor at a scientific conference in Washington DC, his mission is to shut her up…
The company they work for has a breakthrough to announce: the first vaccine against HIV. An international medical trial has found it safe and effective, and the product's all set for government approval. Only a few days are 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 Ben 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 sexy, smart, but ethically challenged man, unsure of what’s right and what’s wrong.
The company they work for has a breakthrough to announce: the first vaccine against HIV. An international medical trial has found it safe and effective, and the product's all set for government approval. Only a few days are 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 Ben 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 sexy, smart, but ethically challenged man, unsure of what’s right and what’s wrong.
383 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 10, 2021
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Brian Deer
2 books51 followersBrian Deer is a multi-award-winning investigative reporter, best known for inquiries into the drug industry, medicine, and social issues for The Sunday Times. He's the author of the nonfiction investigation, The Doctor Who Fooled the World, and the medical thriller, Blind Trial.
Among Deer's professional recognitions, he's been awarded an honorary doctorate and nominated three times for British Press Awards, winning the title of specialist journalist of the year twice, and shortlisted for the title of UK reporter of the year. Judges said of his first prize, for investigations published longform in The Sunday Times Magazine, that he was probably "the only journalist in Britain that polices the drugs companies." For his second, given for investigations included in The Doctor Who Fooled the World, they said his reporting was "a tremendous righting of a wrong."
In 2021, The Doctor Who Fooled the World, won the Eric Hoffer Award, and an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY).
Among Deer's professional recognitions, he's been awarded an honorary doctorate and nominated three times for British Press Awards, winning the title of specialist journalist of the year twice, and shortlisted for the title of UK reporter of the year. Judges said of his first prize, for investigations published longform in The Sunday Times Magazine, that he was probably "the only journalist in Britain that polices the drugs companies." For his second, given for investigations included in The Doctor Who Fooled the World, they said his reporting was "a tremendous righting of a wrong."
In 2021, The Doctor Who Fooled the World, won the Eric Hoffer Award, and an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY).
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May 15, 2021
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