Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
On September 29, 1982, seven people in the Chicago area swallowed Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide... and died. They didn’t know they had been poisoned; they simply reached for the most trusted painkiller in America. The nation panicked. Johnson & Johnson pulled 31 million bottles. The FBI launched the biggest manhunt since the JFK assassination. The public was told a single person, in an unprecedented act of evil, had laced the capsules-one madman never convicted of the crime. The Tylenol murders didn’t begin in 1982. They began in 1979 and continued through 1986. Multiple killers were involved. Johnson & Johnson may have known Tylenol was a target, three years before, when the first victim died in 1979. For more than forty years, the real story has been buried under silence, misdirection, corporate self-preservation, and an investigation too narrowly focused from the start. The author spent his career inside the pharmaceutical supply chain. He knows how drugs move from factory to shelf, and what it would take to tamper with sealed products. He’s spent years reconstructing what truly happened-following the evidence across state lines, through FBI field offices, and into historical records that never made the newspapers. He found a trail of death far longer than anyone ever admitted, and a case for multiple perpetrators-including individuals possibly still alive who should be investigated. Seven Innocents names names. It lays out the evidence. It gives the FBI new direction to close out not just the Chicago case but a string of murders the public was never told were connected. The families have waited long enough. Seven Innocents is the third and most revealing book on J&J, preceded by No More Tears, (Harris) and Tylenol and Autism (Parker). 6
