The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) just can't get out of its own way.
Now, through its consultant Mark Barondess, PhRMA is threatening to seek a court order to recall every copy of The Karasik Conspiracy, a new thriller published to the influential lobbying group's great dismay.
This is the novel Big Pharma, through its PhRMA mouthpiece, first tried to commission, then control and finally kill!
The whole affair is of PhRMA's making: they secretly commissioned a thriller novel whose aim was to scare the living daylights out of folks who might want to buy cheap drugs from Canada.
Barondess is also demanding that emails he wrote to the publisher and authors be removed from the book's web site.
Core First Amendment protections are at risk as the dispute pits one of America's richest and most powerful lobbying groups against Phoenix Books, a small publisher with only a fraction of PhRMA's resources.
The outcome could profoundly affect the rights of a free press.
Read about all the latest twists and turns, written by Kenin Spivak (one of the novels authors), here:
The Huffington Post
Insiders' view: Buy a copy now, as they might become collectors items sooner than anyone thought! Also, save the emails off the website!
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