About this title: Miracle drugs save lives and ease suffering, but for profit-motivated companies, the miracle is the money they generate...at any cost. Billions of dollars in profits will make men and women do many things--lie, cheat, even kill. now one beautiful woman will be caught in the cross fire between ethics and profits. As Celia Jordans fast-track career sweeps her into the highest circles of an international drug company, she begins to discover the sins and secrets hidden in the research lab...and in the marketplace. Now the company's powerful new drug promises a breakthrough in treating a ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1984
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. Dustjacket has some tears at edges and some age-related yellowing. Some edgewear to bottom of papers (dusty). Pages are clean and unmarked. read more
"The story begins in the late fifties with Celia de Grey a pharmaceutical detail "man" which means she sells prescription drugs to doctors and Andrew Jordan an MD. In a dramatic manner she brings Andrew an experimental drug not on the market for use on his dying young patient and they save her life. Celia informs Andrew she is going to marry him and one month later she does. They honeymoon for three weeks in the Bahamas, where she is liberated sex kitten, and on the return flight home she informs him of her twenty-five year plan.
Have first child immediately, take one year off work then return to the company, a few years later have second child, continue working, hire perfect British nanny, buy perfect house in perfect neighborhood for bargain price, remodel for less than expected costs (that may be the most unrealistic thing of all) skyrocket through the pharmaceutical company by acurately predicting the next president of the company and hitching her star to his, eventually become president of pharmaceutical company and revolutionize the industry.
All goes according to plan.
Celia isn't the only one perfect everyone else is too. Her boss's only daughter, beautiful, rich and doted upon is NOT spoiled, and happily married at age 20 to an ideal young man -- these lucky parents had no sleepless nights. Celia's own children are super talented, directed, healthy, docile, straight A students in their private boarding schools.
I'm more than half way through the book hoping for the big crisis to hit, based on his other books his style is to build up an overwhelming and realistic disaster through small seemingly harmless events that by themselves are benign, but together and at the right time can be astonishing in impact. I'm eagerly anticpating these characters demise as I HATE them. Celia even buys several copies of Feminine Mystique and sends it to several of her co-workers! If drivel like that was sent to my desk she'd be circling the want ads before the work day was over."
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