Drugs and Desire [Paperback]

Thrilling Cocktail --Beccles and Bungay Journal

Story moves cleverly from character to character with an insight of male and female psyche that is as finely honed as the fulcrum of the finest dispensary balance. --Industrial Pharmacy

With lots of sex and melodrama, Drugs and Desire threatens to do for the ordinary pharmacist what The Da Vinci Code did for mild-mannered academics who like to look at stone carvings in churches. --Telegraph and Argus

This tale takes us into the fascinating but little known world behind the scenes in British pharmacies and out onto a glittering global stage. That includes Delhi, Florence, London, Paris and Telegraph Cove. Agatha Christie, Tony Parsons and this author Malcolm E Brown all feature drugs. However, Malcolm E Brown is a pharmacist so he knows more about drugs. Many novels feature doctors and nurses but this is probably the first to feature pharmacists as heroes. The author is also a sociologist. That rare combination means that this novel sizzles.

THRILLING COCKTAIL" Beccles and Bungay Journal

"brought me out in a cold sweat" Chemist and Druggist

"telling pharmaceutical and sociological details" Quasar

Malcolm E Brown is a bit of a polymath. He delights in his reputation as a writer, author and commentator. Maybe it s his unusual collection of qualifications. He s a pharmacist. But he s also bagged a BA, a masters in natural science - and a doctorate in sociology. Being both pharmacist and sociologist is extremely unusual. He has worked as an industrial production manager and in senior positions in the NHS. He was Director of Pharmacy at an NHS district general hospital and also Director of Civil Emergency Planning for the NHS liasing with blue light services. In 1994, he entered consultancy. He trained the entire UK sales force of Roche on selling medicines to the NHS, for example. He certified batches of medicines as a EU Qualified Person (QP) which is a quasi-governmental role. He s been named on several licences for pharmaceutical companies. He s audited and advised in several countries including Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. So he s experienced in the public service, industry and working for himself. As a sociologist he loves interpreting those, and other, worlds. His 70 + publications span a remarkable range. An award-winning article writer, he s also published scientific papers, short stories - and this novel Drugs and Desire. He has spoken to many groups such as auditors, lawyers, medical practitioners, top managers and the general public on the BBC. He injects humour. Acclaim for his speeches has included lively and enthusiastic , thoroughly entertaining and excellent . He was the keynote speaker at a nine-nation widely multidisciplinary conference at The Hague. His brief was to stimulate thinking outside the box .