The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers

Scott Carney

Harper Collins, May 31, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 272 pages

“An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported….A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities.”
—Michael Largo, author of Final Exits

Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach’s Stiff, Carney’s The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and child trafficking, raising issues and exposing corruptions almost too bizarre and shocking to imagine.

Contents

• Chapter Nine Immortal Promises: viii
• Afterword Ode to Loretta Hardesty: xxxiv
• Acknowledgments: lvi

About the author

Scott Carney is an investigative journalist and anthropologist, as well as the author of the New York Times bestseller What Doesn’t Kill Us. He spent six years living in South Asia as a contributing editor for WIRED and writer for Mother Jones, NPR, Discover Magazine, Fast Company, Men’s Journal, and many other publications. His other books include The Red Market, The Enlightenment Trap and The Wedge. He is the founder of Foxtopus Ink, a Denver-based media company. 

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
• Author: Scott Carney
• Edition: unabridged
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2011
• ISBN: 0062079581, 9780062079589
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Business; Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients); Science / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology