Now a major TV series on Disney+'A shocking investigation... Dopesick is essential' The Times'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer'A deep – and deeply needed – look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks'Essential reading' New York TimesBeth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and explains how a nation...

**An Instant National Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair"There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a raft of sobering statistics and, most uniquely in our era, a willingn...

Political and government allegiances and norms continue to change. Master Spy Elda Ainsworth is hunted by a mysterious black ops team with ties to the United States government. A patriot to her core, but no longer part of US intelligence, she works to rebuild her team headquarters outside of the United States, while retaining a presence within the US.Her Cold War nemesis, Tosh Chelovek, is missing, presumed dead. The Kremlin has issued a hit order on his team. Tosh surfaces in Ital...

They are masters in the covert world of spies and assassins.Elda Ainsworth cut her teeth as a spy in the Cold War. Currently semiretired, she has been activated by the American government to extract her friend Korinna Federov, a Russian translator for the Kremlin. Elda's background as a military analyst, personal trainer, and psychologist makes her a formidable opponent.Trained by the KGB, Anatoly Petrov was born to be a killing machine. Anatoly's mission i...

**An important account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Factory Man.“Deeply reported, deeply moving” —Patrick Radden Keefe**Nearly a decade into the second wave of America's overdose crisis, pharmaceutical companies have yet to answer for the harms they created. As pending court battles against opioid makers, distributors, and retailers drag on, addict...

**An Instant National Bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vanity Fair"There couldn’t be a timelier book . . . searingly poignant, essential . . . Macy follows closely in the footsteps of . . . Barbara Ehrenreich and Tracy Kidder, combining memoir with reportage, a raft of sobering statistics and, most uniquely in our era, a willingn...

The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas.One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employ...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR.Beth Macy reveals the disturbing truth behind America's opioid crisis and explains how a nation has become enslaved to prescription drugs.This powerful and moving story explains how a large corporation, Purdue, encouraged small town doctors to prescribe OxyContin to a country already awash in painkillers. The drug's dangerously addictive nature was hidden, whilst many used it as an escape, to numb the pain of of joblessness and the need to pay the bil...

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves.George and Willie Muse were just six and nine years old, but they worked the fields from dawn to dark. Until a white man offered them candy and stole them away to become circus freaks. For the next twenty-eight years, their distraught mother struggled to get them back. But were they really kidnapped? And how did their mother, a barely literate black woman in ...

Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, United Kingdom, adventure, Moscow Nights Series, Moscow Nights BooksBoots on the ground, they compete with an electronic world.Elda Ainsworth is again pitted against her old Russian Cold War rival, Toshchiy Chelovek, "Tosh," and his expanded team that includes her old adversaries, Tosh's niece, Snezhana Chelovek, and the assassin, Anatoly Petrov. Elda brings in resources from the US and UK to help her defeat the Russians ...

Moscow Nights Return, book one of the Moscow Nights Series, is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. When veteran intelligence operative Elda Ainsworth is called out of retirement to extract a trusted friend from Moscow, she knows she's stepping back into a world where trust is deadly and every move is being watched. As Russian operatives...

Masters of misinformation trap the team in a swirl of misdirectionElda Ainsworth, an ex-Navy, ex-Cold War spy, semi-retired and living peacefully on the Coast of Maine is reactivated and joins with her old adversary, Toshchiy Chelovek, and his favorite assassin, Anatoly Petrov, as well as Tosh's fem-fatale niece, Snezhana Chelovek.Elda and Tosh combine members from Russia, America and Britain to build a crack team of cyber-sleuths, assassins and spies. Thei...