People in a murder capital are dying from a clinical drugs trial. Will patients in the US and UK be next?
"The Fall of Angels" takes the reader on a page-turning journey into a dark world of power and poverty. Warrensville, South Africa, is the poorest and most violent suburb of the murder capital of the world. But the people there are not only dying from gunshot or knife wounds. They’re also dying from the side effects of a clinical trial conducted there in 2003 by a global pharmaceutical company, to test the super-antibiotic Septofloxacin.
Ben Chapman, on sabbatical leave from his New York law firm, following his recent mental breakdown, takes up the case for the people of Warrensville. His struggle to get his life and career back on track is also their struggle for justice, but it comes at a price. His discovery that the company has retained his lawyer wife to represent them risks the total meltdown of their marriage.