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Gardiner Harris is an American published author.

He is a public health reporter and covers international diplomacy for the New York Times. Prior to working at the Times, Gardiner worked at The Wall Street Journal and lived in Hazard, Kentucky for four years as the Eastern Kentucky bureau chief for The Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal.

The reporting that he did in Kentucky would go on to lead to significant changes in laws that governed coal mine safety and black-lung compensation. It would also earn him several national journalism awards, such as a George Polk Award and the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism. He would spend his summers when he was young cutting and hanging tobacco while working on his family’s farm in Todd County, Kentucky.

Hazard is a 2010 book by Gardiner Harris. If you love a good thriller, then you’re going to love this book that some are calling a ‘truly unique thriller’, and one that author Jason Pinter says is a ‘dark, fascinating journey full of twists and turns’.

A miner named Amos Blevins has hardly any time to react when a block of coal that is roughly the same size as a stove comes out of the wall at top speed, and soon the area is flooded with water. These things tend to trigger investigations, and so Inspector Will Murphy is sent over there to investigate and to look into it. He’s been given orders by his superiors to do what he can to clear up things quickly, because money talks and the mine needs to reopen as soon as possible.

The closing of the mine would obviously be catastrophic as all of the miners would then lose their jobs and the mine inspectors would too. The pressure is on Will to try and look into the accident and then close things up so things can get back to business as usual.

On the surface, things appear just to be a simple accident. However, Will has been doing this for a long time and sees something suspicious about this case. Or could he be biased since his older brother took his place as the heir to East Kentucky’s largest mining company and owns the flooded mine? Could his own feelings be in play here?

Not too long after Will starts his investigation, it appears that all of his witnesses are going away since they are starting to turn up dead. Amos is refusing to follow orders from his boss to lie to Will about the real nature of the mine’s conditions and he ends up getting threatened. These two men are about to find out that for the mines, coal provides everything– money, power, family, and life.

Part of the reason why this book from Harris is so good is that it pulls from what he knows, which is the experience of him reporting for four years in the coal mines of Kentucky. The author has now put together a fantastic picture of the community while putting together a thrilling story full of twists that readers will not be able to get enough of.

Kirkus Reviews has called this a ‘suspenseful and informative debut’ while author Gregg Olsen has referred to it as a thinking man’s mystery that is ‘both twisty and relevant’. Grab a copy for yourself and go along for the ride by getting a copy of Hazard!

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson is a 2025 book by Gardiner Harris. The book did so well that it became a New York Times bestseller and is a deep, detailed dive into one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in America– Johnson & Johnson. If you’re a nonfiction fan and this topic interests you, you’re going to want to check out what the Associated Press called a ‘damning portrait’.

An investigative journalist for years, Harris puts his skills to use and pours it into a book that has been called a ‘page-turning drama that raises life-or-death questions about the world’s largest healthcare conglomerate’ (Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jonathan Eig). It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles times Book Prize and was selected as a Chicago Public Library and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.

It was 2004 when Gardiner Harris happened to be early for a flight and decided to spend some time before it at an airport bar. He was a pharmaceutical reporter for The New York Times and sat down at the bar to have a drink, inadvertently striking up a conversation with the woman who was sitting next to him on a bar stool.

The conversation would turn into something that was both horrifying and informative. She told him a story about unethical sales practice and the impact that they had on her family, something that would change the way that he would go on to cover the company and indeed the whole of the pharmaceutical industry for the Times. The investigations and the research that has gone on since that conversation have led to this book being written, which asks questions about this American institution that also happens to be one of the biggest healthcare conglomerates in the world.

Informative and engaging beyond belief, the author takes the reader through the image as the friendly baby company and goes into tons of evidence that shows decades of corporate practices that were not only deceitful but dangerous and put at risk millions of lives.

Harris goes over different disasters, cover-ups and lies related to Johnson’s Baby Powder being linked to causing cancer, as well as going over how dangerous Tylenol really can be, a campaign to sell anti-psychotics that took lives, a drug that is for supporting cancer patients that increased the odds that the tumors would grow, and marketing that was knowingly deceptive that accelerated opioid addictions.

Full of shocking information and even revelations, this is a work of investigative journalism that readers will not want to miss. Check out this book by Gardiner Harris to find out more.