Poison Pill Author:Glenn Kaplan After years of struggle, Emma Conway is living the dream ? a happy second marriage and a great career. She is the driving force behind Acordinol, a hugely successful product that has pharmaceutical giant Percival & Baxter riding high. But her dream life becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens P&B with a hostile takeover. Worse,... more » the raider is no ordinary cut-throat, but her ex-husband Josh Katz, father of their 16 year-old son.P&B adopts the fabled Poison Pill strategy to defend against the move. Then a mysteriously tainted batch of Acordinol starts killing people, including P&B?s CEO. Emma takes control of P&B?s just as their once blue-chip stock goes into free fall. As Emma struggles to win the dangerous game her ex has put in motion, she discovers that nothing is as it appears; like Russian nesting dolls, there are secrets hidden within secrets. Josh?s ploy is backed by a Russian oligarch who he owes $500 million, the price of his rescue after the sub-prime collapse. The Russian has covert designs on the holy grail of pharmaceuticals, the first Viagra for women. A secret romance between Emma?s son and the oligarch?s estranged daughter puts the children in the cross-hairs of their parents? mortal combat. And a conspiracy explodes that threatens to destroy them all. Emma is in a battle ?even more desperate than she knows ? to save her family, her company, and everything she loves. Glenn Kaplan has written an engaging thriller that will leave readers breathless.« less