One hundred and fifty million dollars is a lot of money to giveaway. It is an estimate of how much was paid out in foreign aidlast year. When it helps the sick, the starving, the homeless, thedeprived, we feel the money is well spent. But who knows howmuch is pocketed by greedy gangsters and government officials,in corruption or theft?The origins cannot be traced of eighty percent of hospital drugsin one large country. If you get sick you pay a lot of money fortreatment with such drugs, but how they got there, no one seemsto know. Those who own the hospitals just get rich.From the south of France to Italy, London to the Russian FarEast, Marcus Black searches for someone who knows too much.He finds passion and power, deceit and death. Whether it isItalian omert or English discretion, so much is kept quiet. Andwho can be trusted when big money is at stake.
