Pharmakon

Dirk Wittenborn

Bloomsbury, 2009 - Fiction - 406 pages

William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness and that can make him a famous man. When his experiment goes awry, and a research subject commits murder, the consequences will haunt him and his family forever.

About the author

Dirk Wittenborn is a novelist and screenwriter whose books have been published in more than a dozen countries. He is the Emmy-nominated producer of the HBO documentary Born Rich and the co-author and co-producer of The Lucky Ones, a feature film about American soldiers returning from Iraq. He has previously written Fierce People and Zoe. He lives in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pharmakon
• Author: Dirk Wittenborn
• Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2009
• ISBN: 074759810X, 9780747598107
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Crime; Fiction / Family Life / General; Fiction / General; Fiction / Psychological