Pax by Middleton Kiefer (RB200)

Published 1959: First UK Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition

Original black cloth with silver titles on the spine. 286 clean and bright pages, light pencil paragraph side-lining on several pages. Slight shelf wear on covers. (RB200)

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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 dr-ug 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.

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