The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

Hailed by John le Carre as "an act of courage on the part of its author" and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and Britain, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life stories behind le Carre's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener. "A trenchant expose of a sinister new trend...meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence" (Publishers Weekly), Sonia Shah's riveting journalistic account provides an eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global South, where many of the world's poorest patients face an impossible choice: be experimented upon or die for lack of medicine.