The River - A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS (Paperback, 1st Back Bay pbk. ed)

Now in paperback: the news-making medical detective story that The New York Times called "remarkable."

Hailed both for its revelations and its intense readability, this extraordinary work of investigative reporting examines the myriad theories about the origins of AIDS — and offers compelling evidence that an experimental polio vaccine administered in Africa in the 1950s let to one of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history.