Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Kill Shot on EtoBox?

Kill Shot by Jason Dearen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kill Shot about?

****An award-winning investigative journalist's horrifying true crime story of America's deadliest drug contamination outbreak and the greed and deception that fueled it.****Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus *Exserohilum rostratum*. The death count: 100 and rising. *Kill Shot* is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed."Bloodthirsty" is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC). Though NECC chief Barry Cadden called his company the "Ferrari of Compounders," it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, mold-ridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. Once inside some of its human hosts, the fungus traveled through the tough...

Who reads Kill Shot?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Jason Dearen
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
2021
Language
EN
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Biography, Memoir
Rating
4.3 / 5 (318 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

More by Jason Dearen

Browse all works by Jason Dearen

Similar books