The GOT Book Club

[Bilko]

Quite enjoyed this, bit of a slow burner,well written, first one in a trilogy, will give the 2nd one a go, has better reviews, so I'm hopeful !

 

[COYBL25]

The Unknown Warrior - John Nichol.

The author investigates the journey of the Unknown Warrior buried in Westminster Abbey.

From the idea of creating a lasting monument to all those who died and were never found or remained unidentified due to being blown to pieces or simply too badly decomposed to identify during the major battles during World War One and the efforts to recover their bodies.

An incredibly well written and moving book, that goes into harrowing detail about the conditions and deaths of the troops on both sides, on the various fronts.

Then deals with the effects on the families, who will never know how their son, brother, father, husband died or where their body is,

If you don’t fill up reading this, you aren’t human,

 

[LostLegend]

‘No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson&Johnson, by Gardiner Harris’

An incendiary, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America’s oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies—from an award-winning investigative journalist
One day in 2004, Gardiner Harris, early for a flight, sat down at an airport bar and started talking to the woman on the barstool beside him. She was a drug sales rep for Johnson & Johnson, and her horrific story about unethical sales practices and the devastating impact they’d had on her family fundamentally changed the nature of how Harris covered the company—and the entire pharmaceutical industry—for The New York Times.
His subsequent investigations and ongoing research since that very first conversation led to new federal laws and ultimately to this book, a blistering exposé of a trusted American institution and the largest healthcare conglomerate in the world.

Harris takes us light years away from the company’s image as the child-friendly “baby company” as he uncovers reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions. He covers multiple disasters: lies and cover-ups regarding baby powder’s linkage to cancer, the surprising dangers of Tylenol, a criminal campaign to sell dangerous antipsychotics to children, a popular drug used to support cancer patients that actually increases the risk that cancer tumors will grow, and deceptive marketing efforts that accelerated opioid addictions through their product Duragesic (fentanyl) that rival even those of the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma. All told, J&J’s products have helped cause enduring drug crises that have contributed to the deaths of as many as two million people and counting. Filled with shocking, infuriating, but utterly necessary revelations, No More Tears is a landmark work of investigative journalism that lays bare the deeply rooted corruption behind the image of babies bathing with a smile.

Can’t recall who recommended this to me (might have been someone in here actually.)

A really good read this. Pretty damning as well. The sheer amount of scandals they’ve been involved in regarding some of their products being outright deadly and the amount of money in legal expenses they throw away to keep them quiet is scandalous. I’m sure they’re not the only big pharma name at it as well.
The US FDA don’t come out of this looking good either!