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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Charles Atkins Elixir is a real-world amalgam of cutting edge science and the truth about large pharmaceutical companies. They are profit-driven corporations covered with a veneer of "here to help."

The relationship between the drug companies and physicians is one that the general public is largely unaware of. Elixir provides a wonderful mainstream thriller format to explore just how wrong things can go. It asks the central question, if there were a real cure for cancer, what would the drug companies do with it?

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