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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154677603321

Autore

Gazan Sissel-Jo <1973->

Titolo

The arc of the swallow / / S.J. Gazan ; translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Quercus

ISBN

1-68144-550-6

Disciplina

839.813/74

Soggetti

Marhauge, Søren (Fictitious character)

Murder - Investigation - Denmark

Suspense fiction

Vaccination - Research

Murder - Investigation

Mentors - Fiction

Vaccination - Fiction

Murder - Investigation - Fiction

Fiction

Thrillers (Fiction)

Mystery fiction

Denmark

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Biology Ph.D. candidate Marie Skov is devastated when, on the same day as her mother's death, her mentor Kristian Storm apparently kills himself. Storm had been facing academic dishonesty charges, as well as heated criticism of his research on a vaccine for African children--that suggested the vaccine was causing more harm than it was preventing. Skov is skeptical that the death was a suicide. She knows Storm's research on the vaccine was sound, and learns that his on-site work in Guinea-Bissau was marred by intimidation, sabotaged data, and the suspicious death of another scientist. She also learns that in his final days, Storm felt he was being followed by a blue Ford with tinted



windows. Soon afterward, a blue Ford with tinted windows parks across from Skov's home. The police have no interest in re-examining the official narrative. But Marhauge shares Skov's desire for answers, and defies his superiors to help her investigate. They receive unlikely help from a Nobel Prize-winning rival of Storm's, and find themselves on a perilous trail that leads to Big Pharma and the World Health Organization.