KIEFER, Middleton [pseud Harry Middleton & Warren Kiefer]

PAX [A novel of the drug industry]

New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 280pp. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap); slightly rubbed and soiled on lighter portions with a brief closed tear at bottom margin of rear panel - Very Good.

A novel of intrigue, fraud, and profiteering in the American pharmaceutical industry (imagine!), centering on a charismatic industry spokesman and a new over-the-counter tranquilizer with eerie foreshadowings of Prozac. According the the jacket's promotional copy, both authors had spent time as public relations executives for a major American drug manufacturer (unnamed); Kiefer would go on to write numerous screenplays and several more novels, including the Edgar Award-winning The Lingalla Code (1973). Middleton served as Lyndon Baines Johnson's head speechwriter from 1967-69.

Price: $75.00

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