Safe Nowhere

An “entertaining thriller that will more than satisfy genre fans.”
-Kirkus Reviews

Attorneys face off against a pharmaceutical company that doesn’t want the public to know about a drug’s potentially lethal effects. In 2011, law school graduate Katie Hornsby gets a job at the firm of Riley and Newton. Her first case involves multiple clients and a drug called Lorital, a testosterone pill whose generic version has been linked to fatal heart attacks and strokes. Lorital creator Orex Laboratories, however, is making a substantial profit as the owner of Enpact Pharmaceuticals, the Indian company responsible for the drug’s generic form. Orex is more than willing to use its connections, including a circuit court judge and the Michigan Supreme Court’s chief justice, to steer clear of a trial. Katie and her boss combat coercion, blackmail, and a possible spy or two to take their fight to court.

Tom Bleakley is a trial lawyer who specializes in cases against the pharmaceutical industry as well as pro bono cases involving constitutional issues and matter of public interest. He has an extensive background in medicine and pharmacology, a Ph.D. in developmental psychology and has represented many children with prescription-caused birth defects in his trial experiences against the drug industry. In addition to previous novels dealing with the dangers of prescription drugs, Tom has co-authored a two-volume textbook, “A Teaching Program in Psychiatry.”