Publisher's Synopsis
Olivia Zack is an aspiring neuroscientist, pharmaceutical consultant-and murder victim. It will take a post-mortem quest to sort through the mess that led to her death at the hands of a feckless mobster in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn-a death that might have been inadvertently caused by her former best friend Polly Warner.
Celebrities, nightclubs, red carpets: Polly's life as a junior publicist sounds totally glam. Too bad it's a total sham. Overeducated, underpaid, and utterly disillusioned, Polly is mired in an early-life crisis. Her father, an old-school Manhattan psychiatrist, thinks all she needs is a good therapist, but who's got time for sessions with a shrink? Polly's pretty sure she just needs the pills-so she decides to eliminate the middleman and starts sneaking her dad's drug company samples for fun and profit. Olivia tries to intervene, but when the money becomes irresistible, Polly comes up with a brilliant plan to manufacture and sell her own antidepressants. It's American free enterprise at its best-until some shady characters get wind of her faux-zac business and decide to invest.
