Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
About the Reporting xv
Important People and Places xvii
Prologue 1
Part I Shifting Ground
Chapter 1 The Man Who Saw Further 9
Chapter 2 The Gold Rush 17
Chapter 3 A Slum for the Rich 31
Chapter 4 The Language of Quality 41
Chapter 5 Red Flags 57
Part II India Rises
Chapter 6 Freedom Fighters 69
Chapter 7 One Dollar a Day 81
Chapter 8 A Clever Way of Doing Things 91
Chapter 9 The Assignment 101
Part III A Cat-and-Mouse Business
Chapter 10 The Global Cover-Up 121
Chapter 11 Map of the World 137
Chapter 12 The Pharaoh of Pharma 149
Part IV Making a Case
Chapter 13 Out of the Shadows 161
Chapter 14 "Do Not Give to FDA" 169
Chapter 15 "How Big Is the Problem?" 179
Chapter 16 Diamond and Ruby 195
Chapter 17 "You Just Don't Get It" 207
Part V Detectives in the Dark
Chapter 18 Congress Wakes Up 221
Chapter 19 Solving for X 233
Chapter 20 A Test of Endurance 245
Chapter 21 A Deep, Dark Well 259
Chapter 22 The $600 Million Jacket 273
Part VI The Watershed
Chapter 23 The Light Switch 293
Chapter 24 We Are the Champions 311
Chapter 25 Crashing Files 321
Chapter 26 The Ultimate Testing Laboratory 337
Part VII Reckonings
Chapter 27 Flies Too Numerous to Count 357
Chapter 28 Standing 377
Epilogue 395
Postscript 411
Acknowledgments 417
Glossary 421
Notes 427
Index 469