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Joan's Picks: Blue Moon and Exposure

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Sun, 10 Nov 2019, 12:53PM
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Joan's Picks: Blue Moon and Exposure

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Sun, 10 Nov 2019, 12:53PM

Blue Moon by Lee Child. This is Jack Reacher # 24. This time he comes across an elderly couple who’ve got themselves into a financial mess by borrowing money for life saving surgery for their daughter, and tied up with a couple of dangerous gangs – the Albanians and the Ukrainians, who are not best pleased to have Jack on their patch. Great stuff.

Exposure by Robert Bilott. In the spirit of Erin Brokovich, this is the author’s true story – how when working as an environmental lawyer, he found that runoff from a DuPont landfill, and the production of Teflon at a local plant was causing catastrophic damage in West Virginia. DuPont is such a big employer there that nobody would listen and the authorities took no action - the author discovered the company had known about it for 60 years, while state officials turned a blind eye. DuPont eventually paid more than a billion New Zealand dollars in penalties and reparations. This is about corporate malpractice and one man’s 20 year crusade.

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