Two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom, accused of murder. The weapon: the fungus Exserohilum rostratum. The death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot, by award-winning investigative reporter Jason Dearen, is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to save patients from the fungal meningitis the pharmacists had unleashed. Kill Shot also shows how the deadliest drug contamination crisis in American history affected law, policy, and the American public. Kill Shot includes an appendix of questions to empower readers to protect themselves by asking medical providers about where their medications come from and how they were made. Dearen's comprehensive interviews with afflicted families, doctors working on the ground, and prosecutors seeking justice bring this powerful hut unchecked branch of the pharmaceutical industry out of the shadows and into the light. Book jacket.