L'Affaire Famille
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
- Tapa blanda
- Usado
Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de AmericaThriftBooks-Dallas
Vendedor de AbeBooks desde 2 de julio de 2009
Condición: Usado - Bueno
EUR 8,86
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N° de ref. del artículo G1491063963I4N00
- Título
- L'Affaire Famille
- Autor
- Tim Parise
- Editorial
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Año de publicación
- 2013
- Estado
- Very Good
- Sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1491063963
- ISBN 13
- 9781491063965
- Peso del artículo
- 1,01 libras
After the president of Togo disappears from his mistress’s bed in the middle of the night and is mysteriously restored to her before morning, he subsequently makes major alterations to Togo’s annual budget and foreign policy. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to push them through alone. The other key men in his government also appear to have something to hide and thus something to gain by following his lead. Although they may be more forthcoming about exactly what they are hiding with the Chinese ambassador.
In central Africa, British reporter Tony Henderson has stumbled onto something unusual: revolutionaries who not only don’t want publicity for their cause, they actually go to great lengths to avoid it. He is gently but firmly shooed away from potential hot spots and told to go report on local agricultural complaints instead, much to his chagrin. The Ugandan government may be on the verge of collapse, with a massive popular movement to restore the traditional kingdoms underway, and no one will tell him about it.
On the other side of the world, Dr. Robert Saul, a clever biochemist with a beautiful but vapid wife and a taste for ignoring patients and perjuring himself in his spare time, is being courted by a major pharmaceutical firm. His unpleasant personality is canceled out by one very important consideration: he has developed a revolutionary antiviral called VIPER, which not only cures the common cold, but also HIV and everything in between. The clinical trials look promising. In another twenty years, AIDS will have been consigned to the history books.
However, the Bourbon-Bussets have other ideas. In their opinion, twenty years is too long to wait, and any price too high to pay for public access to the vaccine. Armed with a ready supply of cash and a creative approach to private property, and with their machinations stretching from Swaziland to Rome to Ciudad Juarez, they go after Dr. Saul themselves. They want him to release the patent for the antiviral into the public domain. And if he proves uncooperative, well, then, they will have to find a way to persuade him.
The price of failure is twenty million dead. Or more.
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After the president of Togo disappears from his mistress’s bed in the middle of the night and is mysteriously restored to her before morning, he subsequently makes major alterations to Togo’s annual budget and foreign policy. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to push them through alone. The other key men in his government also appear to have something to hide and thus something to gain by following his lead. Although they may be more forthcoming about exactly what they are hiding with the Chinese ambassador.
In central Africa, British reporter Tony Henderson has stumbled onto something unusual: revolutionaries who not only don’t want publicity for their cause, they actually go to great lengths to avoid it. He is gently but firmly shooed away from potential hot spots and told to go report on local agricultural complaints instead, much to his chagrin. The Ugandan government may be on the verge of collapse, with a massive popular movement to restore the traditional kingdoms underway, and no one will tell him about it.
On the other side of the world, Dr. Robert Saul, a clever biochemist with a beautiful but vapid wife and a taste for ignoring patients and perjuring himself in his spare time, is being courted by a major pharmaceutical firm. His unpleasant personality is canceled out by one very important consideration: he has developed a revolutionary antiviral called VIPER, which not only cures the common cold, but also HIV and everything in between. The clinical trials look promising. In another twenty years, AIDS will have been consigned to the history books.
However, the Bourbon-Bussets have other ideas. In their opinion, twenty years is too long to wait, and any price too high to pay for public access to the vaccine. Armed with a ready supply of cash and a creative approach to private property, and with their machinations stretching from Swaziland to Rome to Ciudad Juarez, they go after Dr. Saul themselves. They want him to release the patent for the antiviral into the public domain. And if he proves uncooperative, well, then, they will have to find a way to persuade him.
The price of failure is twenty million dead. Or more.
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