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The Taxol Thief
The Taxol Thief
The Taxol Thief
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For three decades, the FDA denied approval of a first-in-class drug, "taxol," condemning thousands of breast-cancer victims to certain death. The Taxol Thief is the story of one couple's attempt to evade that fate by smuggling taxol from China through Russia.

Anastasia and Troy Locke had a bright future. She had just landed a college teaching position. He was a McDonald's manager with plans for a restaurant of his own, when their world caved in. His wife's diagnosis: Cancer.

His dad offered his knowledge. "Taxol, perhaps?"

Extracted from the yew tree, Julius Caesar's armies forged deadly arrows from taxol wood. Cantabrians committed suicide by chewing its poisonous seeds, rather than submit to Ceasar's slavery. But the fleshy red seed casings, the aril, were delicious, life-giving delicacies. Taxol effectively treated breast cancer in sixty percent of clinical trials.

What's the problem? Taxol might be the cure, if you can get your hands on it ... So begins Troy Locke's odyssey, a frustrating, danger-fraught journey to obtain a medical hope.

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Release dateOct 26, 2016
ISBN9781370130443
The Taxol Thief
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Ceylon Barclay

Ceylon Barclay, former President of Worldwide Marketing for Chinese Taxol extractor, Great Wall Pharmaceutical Company, has spent the last thirty-five years launching and advancing economic projects in global hot spots. Along the way, he has written several books and served as President of Friends of the Upper Volga Institute with Mikhail Gorbachev. He lives in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife, a Russian professor.

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