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PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101648211054

ISBN-139781648211058

eBay Product ID (ePID)8068271011

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Book TitleMiddleman : a Legal Thriller

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicThrillers / Crime, Thrillers / Legal, Thrillers / Suspense

GenreFiction

AuthorMike Papantonio

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"Papantonio's latest legal thriller crackles with the realism that only a topnotch trial lawyer can provide." --JOSEPH REID, bestselling author of the Seth Walker series "A propulsive legal thriller, The Middleman reveals the seamy side of the pharmaceutical industry, exposing how murder and intimidation are used to secure monopoly power and drive up prices of lifesaving drugs." --LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ, author of The Dying and Synbio "In The Middleman , Mike Papantonio has crafted his most compelling legal thriller to date. With sharp prose, familiar, richly drawn characters, and a briskly paced intricate plot ripped from the headlines involving the crisis of Big Pharma's price fixing, Papantonio weaves a riveting tale of corporate greed, murder, missteps, and pure evil." --ROBERTA GATELY, author of Lipstick in Afghanistan , IRC nurse and humanitarian aid worker " The Middleman by Mike Papantonio is a suspenseful thriller and window into the machinations of Big Pharma and the insider corruption that lies at the heart of the industry." --BEN CRUMP, nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury trial lawyer

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SynopsisThe Middleman is an epic drama of whistleblowers, murder, thrills, and legal combat--torn out of today's headlines. Nicholas "Deke" Deketomis and his law firm take on America's Big Pharma when Deke's college pal, Matt Redmond, presents him with a case of possible fraud involving EirePharma, the Redmond family business and a powerful Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM). PBMs serve as the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurance companies, working in cryptic ways to determine not only the cost of drugs but also placing them on insurers' preferred formularies. EirePharma was recently taken over by the charismatic CEO, Connor Devlin, who has a Rasputin-like influence over Matt's cousin, Amy, the company's current president. Devlin may be utilizing racketeering practices--and perhaps murder--to raise the prices of insulin and other drugs for his own profit and to the detriment of consumers. Amy, who at first was in love with Devlin, decides--at great peril--to become her company's whistleblower and provide evidence to Deke and his team. When key witnesses and even Redmond family members meet mysterious and violent deaths, Amy finds herself a pawn caught in the center of a frightening and deadly game of wills between a formidable gangster, who in the eyes of the public is a respected businessman, and a law firm that is determined to investigate and uncover the Middleman's crimes. In the tradition of Suspicious Activity and Inhuman Trafficking , Mike Papantonio takes Deke and his cohorts on a new and different kind of legal gamble in The Middleman , which is chock full of the action and thrills for which he is known.