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In September 1989, Joseph Wesbecker stormed into the Standard Gravure printing plant, shot twenty of his former colleagues and then himself. Despite his long history of mental illness, aggravated by his working conditions, the victims and their families sued the manufacturers of the 'miracle' drug Prozac. Here John Cornwell reveals the inside story of the trial, the complex small- town background and the secret lawyers' deal which raises many disquieting questions about medicine as big business and justice up for sale."While the rest of the world's press sat hypnotized by the O. J. Simpson trial... John Cornwell was attending another trial in Louisville, Kentucky... just as venal, just as riveting, and in the long term vastly more important than the sad farce in Los Angeles a sober, well-paced and absorbing account - Brian Masters in the Spectator"With the pace and clarity that we might expect of this award-winning writer, Cornwell shows how what began as a tragic culmination of a life distressingly spiralling into despair, destroying the lives of others with it, became a courtroom squabble over some of the most challenging questions thrown up by late-twentieth-century science'- David Canter in the New Scientist'John Cornwell, because he writes so well, and has such a cool firm grasp of his subject, places the whole horror almost too vividly before us' - Ruth Rendell in the Sunday Times ISBN:9780140254716
