KILLER DRUG (Paperback)

by Peter Rost (Author)

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Product Description
The CIA on June 26, 2007 declassified secret documents that revealed "the Agency had relations with commercial drug manufacturers, whereby they passed on drugs rejected because of unfavorable side effects."

Killer Drug is a thriller about one such drug company, which develops a biological weapon and uses murder to achieve its objectives. It is also a drama about just how far corporate executives may be willing to go . . .

About the Author
Peter Rost is the bestselling author of "The Whistleblower, Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman." Dr. Rost was a vice president of marketing at Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (July 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601452438
• ISBN-13: 978-1601452436
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,223,188 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KILLER DRUG is this year's most intense thriller., August 14, 2007

By	Thriller Doc - See all my reviews

Killer Drug is a fast-paced thriller about a drug company that kills its enemies - and employees.

Alex McGraw, whistleblower and former Managing Director of BioPharma Germany, is trying to move on with his life after having uncovered world-wide corporate tax [...]. He finally receives a job offer from Xenal. The omnipotent security department, however, spies on company employees using both advanced technology and personal surveillance and already knows about Alex's history.

Alex's first assignment is to go to the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, Mexico, to manage a lavish meeting with hundreds of doctors. Alex meets Xenal employee Jennifer Klum at the reception and falls for her. She confides in Alex who follows her to her room. Later, Jennifer is abducted by Zapatista rebels and Alex spends a short time in custody as a suspect in her disappearance.

But nothing in this book is what it originally appears to be and soon a Xenal-funded death squad is hunting Jennifer in Mexico's jungles. Meanwhile Jennifer finds herself prepared for a ritual sacrifice on a Mayan pyramid.

Alex gets a demonstration of the secret chemical weapons program jointly managed by Xenal and the CIA. Then Xenal's CEO Ms. Metcalf discovers that the security chief isn't loyal to her and implements a plan to oust him. She secretly negotiates a deal with another predatory corporation, to make a friendly takeover bid for Xenal.

In the middle of all this Alex decides to expose this powerful corporation. And now the real action starts involving choppers, corporate jets, soldiers of fortune, and Convulsor, the drug developed by Xenal.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stand-out thriller fueled by real experience., August 14, 2007

By	E. K. Stackler "Ed Stackler" (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As the novel's editor and dedicatee, I am no doubt too biased to review fairly this new work by Peter Rost. But like any true book lover, I can't keep quiet when I read something that sticks with me like KILLER DRUG has.

For readers who love escapist thrillers as I do, this novel delivers a fluid, fast-paced ride that outdoes virtually all its "financial thriller" competition. This is remarkable, given that Peter Rost, a native of Sweden, speaks and writes English as a second language. Most born-and-bred Americans who tried their hand at fiction wouldn't come close to matching Rost's dialogue or prose.

But what makes the novel truly exceptional is that -- like most great fiction -- it's rooted in real-life experience. Like his novel's protagonist, Peter Rost blew the whistle at a major pharmaceutical company (actually, at two of them). Without that experience, no author could do what Rost does -- make his own hero's whistleblowing journey a visceral and emotionally charged journey where the stakes are unimaginably high.

-- Ed Stackler

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING ACTION THRILLER - AS GOOD AS FINDER OR GRISHAM, August 13, 2007

By	Grisham Fan (USA) - See all my reviews

I read Dr. Rost's first book "The Whistleblower: Confessions of a Healthcare Hitman," and hoped "Killer Drug" would be as exciting as that one.

Truth is, I couldn't put this book down for almost the entire weekend. Killer Drug is an incredibly action-oriented corporate thriller, with virtually now slow passages.

Rost writes like a combination between Joseph Finder and John Grisham; high tempo, in a corporate setting, with lots of legal twists.

But Rost doesn't keep the action pent up inside some office walls. He moves the chase to ancient Mayan hunting grounds where human sacrifices are still conducted in secret, and the bad guys use hi-tech weapons and satellite-guided death squads to bring the suspense to a boiling point.

Much of the story, however, is actually very realistic, and makes you wonder what Rost really knows about the drug industry. The fact that those "family jewels" CIA documents really exist makes this book outright scary.

In short, the suspense starts on the first page and doesn't go away until you reach the last line.

I've been too lazy to do book reviews in the past, but this one really deserved a comment.