Gerald Posner

A former attorney, investigative researcher and writer Gerald Posner is the author of thirteen acclaimed books, including New York Times nonfiction bestsellers Case Closed about the Kennedy assassination, Why America Slept about the activities going on behind the scenes with intelligence services and government leaders during the time preceding 9/11, God’s Bankers about money corruption in the Vatican, and his latest book (2020), PHARMA about a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients. He is a contributor to Forbes. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History.

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“What distinguishes ‘Pharma’ from these earlier efforts is that the author sets himself the task of writing a bigger, more ambitious tome…. The result is a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients…[PHARMA] reads like a pharmaceutical version of cops and robbers.” — New York Times

“Compelling and enraging…an encyclopedic act of reporting” – Pittsburgh Post Gazette

“Gerald Posner’s ‘Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America could be seen as the 2020 equivalent of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, which led to public outrage over the meat-packing industry. His unsettling book, five years in the making and buttressed by a trove of documentation, is not only a careful history, it’s also a staggering indictment of pharmaceutical companies.” — Christian Science Monitor

“Encyclopedic exposé…a Pandora’s box of shocking malfeasance, perfidy, and corruption. Explosively, even addictively, readable” —- Booklist

“A shocking, rousing condemnation of an industry clearly in need of better policing” —Kirkus

“Posner has created a medical leviathan for our times” — LitHub

“New information, coupled with Gerald’s dogged reporting, sets PHARMA apart from all books on this subject.” — The Washington Standard

“I could not put down Gerald Posner’s PHARMA, the definitive story of how one family, the Sacklers, set out to get exquisitely rich on the back of unsuspecting Americans—then blamed the so-called ‘abusers’ instead of their own highly addictive drug. Posner has unearthed important new material that illuminates our national tragedy, crafting a meticulously reported page-turner that is as juicy as it is clear-eyed.”— Beth Macy, author of Dopesick

“Very few writers today can successfully turn investigative journalism into a thriller-style fast paced novel. Truman Capote was one, and Gerald Posner is another.” Steve Murphy, The Law Business Insider