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The Beta File
The Beta File
The Beta File
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THE BETA FILE is set within the UK pharmaceutical industry where an employee of Furrina Pharmaceuticals is concerned at some of the immoral practices being undertaken by the company in order to rush a new drug onto the market. Worried about these disreputable activities he contacts a TV station and offers to become a whistleblower to help expose such activities.

Kim Harding the senior investigator and lead reporter for TV-12 worried about the stations falling viewers for their flagship investigative programme sees this not only as an ideal opportunity to reverse that trend but also to further her own career.

A fast moving story with the action moving between England, India and some tense court cases in London which the TV company must win in order to broadcast their programme, leads to an ending which is both unexpected and shocking.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 13, 2016
ISBN9781524637255
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Mike Upton

MIKE UPTON is a retired businessman who for many years worked extensively in industry as Managing Director or Chief executive running several companies in Britain and America. This, his second novel (like his first AMBITIONS END) is a work of fiction, but it again draws from his extensive knowledge of business and large multi-national corporations and their involvement and approach to selling off parts of their business, or acquiring competitors. Living in Norfolk he has been married to Brenda for 42 years and has tw daughters and one granddaughter.

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