The Aquila Trials

The monetization of medicine is merely in its cradle.- Ronit Arora, CEO, Meridian Labs In Frankfurt, an affluent heir faces his nemesis ten years after a miraculous cure.In Kolkata, an eminent NGO doctors the health records of unwitting sex workers.In cyberspace, an invisible army distorts consumers’ reality.And in Mumbai, biotechnologist Shubhra Sen connects the dots through ‘The Aquila Trials.’ In the maze of a clinical trial gone awry, Shubhra is set against an opponent who will stop at nothing to rise to the echelons of the Global Billionaire CEO Club. A kaleidoscopic perspective on pharmacracy lays bare the commercialization, politicization, and ritualization of medicine. Pitting the strategies of Chanakya against those of Sun Tzu, communications specialist Kruti Shah unfolds a story of Big Pharma greed, corporate arm-twisting, and thrill.