Michael Palmer - Side Effects

"It's not enough. Jared, these drugs are like time bombs-unpredictable le time bombs capable of exploding inside anyone. I've got to keep after Redding. I've got to find some way to turn some heads around here, and if not here, then publicly. Somewhere, there's got to be a way.

There's-"

"What is it, Kate?"

"What about an ad?"

"An ad?"

"In The Globe, The Herald, all the Boston and suburban papers-a classified ad asking women to search through their medicine cabinets for Omnicenter medications we can analyze. Maybe that's where the rope is to hang that bastard and put the other companies on notice.

Right in those medicine cabinets. If enough Redding products were found contaminating enough Omnicenter medications, even the FDA panel wouldn't be able to ignore the company's involvement. I'm going to do it, Jared.

As soon as we get back to Boston, I'm going to do it. And if it doesn't work, I'll try something else."

She glanced back down the corridor just as Redding was wheeled into the elevator. That sound you keep hearing in your ears is my footsteps, Cyrus, she was thinking. You had better get used to it. the end.