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The Pawn of Pharma

By: Evan Jacobs
Narrated by: Sarah Sampino
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The Pawn of Pharma is a story about corporate greed, business ethics, family loyalty, a search for purpose, and the excessiveness of the American pharmaceutical industry.

Samantha Harmon, a recently hired sales representative for a multinational drug company, struggles to succeed in the extremely competitive American pharmaceutical industry. Living in the shadows of her widowed father, a high-level executive with the organization, she attempts to develop a career while caught up in a business environment where the players do not always have the public's best interest in mind.

Dr. Goldfarb, a prominent physician, speaker, and promoter for the corporation, creates a web of industry professionals he manipulates in order to gain from the loosely regulated business. Samantha accidentally learns of one of his murderous schemes. Her knowledge threatens to bring down Dr. Goldfarb, ending his profiteering. Consequently, the young woman's life is threatened by those who wish to silence her.

©2005 Evan Jacobs (P)2019 Evan Jacobs Suspense Thriller & Suspense Business
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This was a very interesting and thought provoking book on the corruption and greed of the pharmaceutical industry. I'm not sure how much truth there is to this book although it sounds very believable to me, but, either way, I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it. Sarah Sampino did a great job with all the different voices and emotions and really brought this story to life. I received this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review.

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A Pawn of Pharma is an exposure of the outrageous promotional costs of medically prescribed drugs in the U.S.A. as seen through the eyes of a naive little rich girl trying to make a name for herself as a drugs rep. In New Jersey.
The daughter of one of the chief executives in a major drugs company, Samantha, is employed in that company to promote a brand of blood pressure medication, made by them, to doctors who would then prescribe it for their patients, irrespective of whether it was the most suitable solution. The vigorous wooing of the doctors, and the generous hospitality hand outs, not only drove up the cost of the drugs to patients but also help conceal other problems as Samantha inadvertently discovered.

Not an original concept and overly simplistic, this is nevertheless a topic in need of exploration and does raise some useful thinking points. Characterisation is supeficial, unfortunately, as so much depends on the central protagonist, Samantha, a rather silly young woman whose understanding of life seems to have been totally obscured by daddy's money. The youthful sounding voice of narrator, Sarah Sampino, reinforced this idea also, though her reading is clear and well modulated with individual, if inapropriate, voicing given to each character. A good attempt but her male protagonists never began to feel other than female.

An important topic, an easy read, but overall too simplistic
My thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of Pawn of Pharma, via Audiobook Boom. Not a book that I would normally recommend, unless to young adults, though it could form the basis of an exciting film..

A big system that feeds itself.

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