Acceptable Risk

Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780330343381.

From the roots of an ancient witchcraft ...a new terror to destroy. With billions of dollars at stake, every scientist in America is fighting to discover the next Prozac, the latest feel good drug. Edward Armstrong believes he has hit the jackpot. He has isolated a stunningly effective anti-depressant from a bacterial mould first uncovered over two hundred years ago. But there is more to the drug than anyone could have imagined. When Edward turns violent and the corpses of mutilated animals appear near the laboratory, his girlfriend decides to investigate the truth about this new miracle drug. Before it claims any more innocent lives...