Upp Late Reading Again

"You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these days."

—John Le Carre, The Constant Gardener

There is no Dypraxa, never was, never will be. I know of no wonder cure for TB that has recently been launched on the African market or any other—or is about to be—so with luck I shall not be spending the rest of my life in the law courts or worse, though nowadays you can never be sure. But I can tell you this. As my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard.

—Ibid., author's note