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The Red Market: On the Trail of the World´s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
Scott Carney
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Description for The Red Market: On the Trail of the World´s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
Hardback. Journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, with contributing "Wired" editor and award-winning journalist Carney, where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Num Pages: 272 pages, 23 Black and White Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 362.
"An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported...A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities." -Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach's Stiff, Carney's The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and ... Read more
"An unforgettable nonfiction thriller, expertly reported...A tremendously revealing and twisted ride, where life and death are now mere cold cash commodities." -Michael Largo, author of Final Exits Award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Wired editor Scott Carney leads readers on a breathtaking journey through the macabre underworld of the global body bazaar, where organs, bones, and even live people are bought and sold on The Red Market. As gripping as CSI and as eye-opening as Mary Roach's Stiff, Carney's The Red Market sheds a blazing new light on the disturbing, billion-dollar business of trading in human body parts, bodies, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
362g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061936463
SKU
V9780061936463
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About Scott Carney
Scott Carney is an investigative journalist with a decade of experience living and researching in India. He is a contributing editor at Wired magazine. His reporting has also appeared on NPR, CBC, BBC, and National Geographic TV, and in Mother Jones, Fast Company, Discover, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Long Beach, California.
Reviews for The Red Market: On the Trail of the World´s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
"The Red Market is a thrilling adventure into the global body business, with keen insight into the economics that drive it. Scott Carney investigates both our insatiable need for replacement human parts and the uncanny and often disturbing ways we go about getting them."
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail "The Red Market is an unforgettable nonfiction thriller, ... Read more
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail "The Red Market is an unforgettable nonfiction thriller, ... Read more