{"product_id":"the-scientist-who-wasnt-there","title":"The Scientist Who Wasn't There","description":"'A page-turner with a mystery to solve' - Cathy Rentzenbrink\u003cbr\u003e'An exceptional, entirely unpredictable, real-life thriller' - Michael Mansfield\u003cbr\u003e'An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science' The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping' The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE BRIDPORT PRIZE FOR MEMOIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things:\u003cbr\u003eA Space expert at NASA\u003cbr\u003eAn adviser to the World Health Organisation\u003cbr\u003eA successful Big Pharma executive \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Michael Briggs had a secret. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBriggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. In hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father's entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs's greatest invention was himself.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53841808228690,"sku":"9781804189764","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_d969805f-c3d5-40fd-9449-e4fd9bd2fb3f.jpg?v=1782428858","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-scientist-who-wasnt-there","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}