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Propulsive...astounding...disturbing --NPR.org Gripping...Riveting and increasingly foreboding...Eban's pacing, along with a structure that makes this astonishingly complex story easy to follow, gives the book a rough, unforced elegance...An invaluable expose, a reportorial tour de force and a well-turned epic. --New York Times An urgent, alarming work of health reporting that will make you question every drug in your medicine cabinet. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Bottle of Lies is a tour de force of dogged reporting. In her bracing, panoramic account, Katherine Eban expertly unspools a colossal fraud with momentous implications for public health...This book is so alarming in places that it reads like a dystopian medical thriller. But it's true. --Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing and The Snakehead A shocking expose of corporate greed, arrogance, and eagerness to exploit the weak for profit....Bottle of Lies is an important work of investigative journalism. Anyone who takes prescription drugs should read it. --Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control and Fast Food Nation This book will save lives...What Rachel Carson did for our understanding of the perils facing the environment Katherine Eban has now done for our understanding of the threats to our health from the drugs we take every day. Bottle of Lies is Katherine Eban's masterwork of global investigative reporting. --James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Pay Any Price and State of War

Gripping...Riveting and increasingly foreboding...Eban's pacing, along with a structure that makes this astonishingly complex story easy to follow, gives the book a rough, unforced elegance...An invaluable expose, a reportorial tour de force and a well-turned epic. --New York Times Propulsive...astounding...disturbing --NPR.org An urgent, alarming work of health reporting that will make you question every drug in your medicine cabinet. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A shocking expose of corporate greed, arrogance, and eagerness to exploit the weak for profit....Bottle of Lies is an important work of investigative journalism. Anyone who takes prescription drugs should read it. --Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control and Fast Food Nation Bottle of Lies is a tour de force of dogged reporting. In her bracing, panoramic account, Katherine Eban expertly unspools a colossal fraud with momentous implications for public health...This book is so alarming in places that it reads like a dystopian medical thriller. But it's true. --Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing and The Snakehead This book will save lives...What Rachel Carson did for our understanding of the perils facing the environment Katherine Eban has now done for our understanding of the threats to our health from the drugs we take every day. Bottle of Lies is Katherine Eban's masterwork of global investigative reporting. --James Risen, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Pay Any Price and State of War

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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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