Episode 37 - Evan Hughes - His new book, The Hard Sell, crime and punishment at an opioid startup.

This week The Pack is joined by is author Evan Hughes.
(@evanhughes on TWITTER) We dig into Evans's latest creation,
talk about some really evil people and some people who got
screwed the least of which are the people who Insys Therapeutics
killed.  It's drugs, death, and strippers. 


 


Evan has written for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, New York,
The New Republic, Wired, the London Review of Books, and The New
York Review of Books. He has also been published in the New York
Times Book Review, n+1, Slate, The Awl, and Salon, among other
publications. He is the author of Literary Brooklyn, a work of
literary biography and urban history..


 


He is the author of several books, one of his books, turned major
motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey, The Trials of White
Boy Rick. 


 


And his latest, soon to be released, The Hard Sell.


 


The Hard Sell. tells the inside story of a band of
entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling
painkillers--until their scheme unraveled, putting them at the
center of a landmark criminal trial. I’ve read it, Carl read it
and you should read it.


 


Sit back have a drink and enjoy. 


 


Links


https://www.evanhughes.co/


The Hard Sell