The Trial
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (868 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003P9WEJ8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A small town attorney is forced to battle a giant drug company in an attempt to save his daughter's life. She had volunteered for a clinical trial of a drug that both the company and the FDA knew was dangerous. When his daughter's liver starts to fail, and he realizes a liver transplant is out of the question, he decides to fight the drug company on the playing field he knows best…the courtroom. Discovering what was hidden from the public, he finds himself faced with a ruthless adversary willing to commit bribery, kidnapping and murder to keep the drug on the market.
beau nevada said the real deal. I have read a lot of books by trial lawyers who thought they could be authors and most are not worth the paper they are written on.However there is a literary gene that lurks within this author's family and it's on full display in The Trial. At a time when the pharmaceutical industry is recognized as the largest defrauder of goverment funding by having its drugs paid through medicare and medicaid Larry Thompson in this brilliant nov. The Trial by Larry D. Thompson I recently read and enjoyed your novel and certainly recommend that those who enjoy legal situations pick up a copy and meet your well-developed characters. The area setting was delightful as I am familiar with and love the Hill Country area of Texas. The drug company story line is so very timely and as I mentally sat in the courtroom I felt myself pulling strongly for the little man! Thank you for giving me another legal novelist t. Read the Fine Print! Amazon Customer The TrialAuthor: Larry ThompsonWould you chance taking a drug that cures sinus problems, bronchitis and many other ordinary ailments knowing that the side effects might prove fatal? Do you believe everything the drug companies tell you about a new and improve drug that can cure so many illnesses but might leave you with others? Just how far will a drug company go for profits and to soar above the rest? At whose expense will they do
Most readers will soon figure out the identity of the murder victim in the prologue, and find the improbable happy ending cloying. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Samantha, the daughter of Luke Vaughn, a high-powered Houston lawyer who's relocated to the small town of San Marcos, Tex., becomes ill after participating in a trial for a new antibiotic. The drug is produced by an evil pharmaceutical magnate, Dr. From Publishers Weekly This clichéd legal thriller from Grisham wannabe Thompson (So Help Me God) opens with a prologue that undercuts rather than enhances suspense by revealing two major plot points: the bad news teenager Samantha Vaughn receives about her failing liver and the murder of a "young executive" in possession of some important computer disks. . When Luke learns