The Red Market de Scott Carney - 2011

VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Very good. Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Minor soiling to panels, primarily front. Foxing to top and bottom edges of jacket, primarily back panel. BOARDS: Very good. BOOK: Very good. Light foxing to textblock head and foredge. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

Here on offer is a very nice copy of investigative journalist Scott Carney's, The Red Market, a shocking expose of the global underground trade in body parts. This copy is a 1st American trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by William Morrow in 2011.

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"A shocking tour through a macabre global underworld where organs, bones, and live people are bought and sold on the red market. Investigative journalist Scott Carney has spent five years tracing the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts. The Red Market reveals the rise, fall, and resurgence of this multi-billion-dollar underground trade through history, from early medical study and modern universities to poverty-ravaged Eurasian villages and high-tech Western labs; from body snatchers and surrogate mothers to skeleton dealers and the poor who sell body parts to survive. While local and international law enforcement have cracked down on the market, advances in science have increased the demand for human tissue--ligaments, kidneys, even rented space in women's wombs--leaving little room to consider the ethical dilemmas inherent in the flesh-and-blood trade."

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The above text was taken from William Morrow publishing (via Google Books).