“A relentless, meticulous, and highly persuasive exposé by a journalist who spent nine years investigating the medical research establishment’s failure to take seriously chronic fatigue syndrome… In a chronology that runs from 1984 to 1994, Johnson crams in fact after telling fact, building up a dismaying picture of a rigid and haughty biomedical research establishment unwilling or unable to respond to the challenge of a multifaceted disease for which a causative agent has yet to be found… A compelling, well-documented account…” —Kirkus Reviews