two pharmacists sit in a Boston courtroom accused of murder. the weapon: the fungus exserohilum rostratum. the death count: 100 and rising. Kill Shot is the story of their hubris and fraud, discovered by a team of medical detectives who raced against the clock to hunt the killers and the fungal meningitis they'd unleashed. "Bloodthirsty" is how doctors described the fungal microbe that contaminated thousands of drug vials produced by the new england Compounding Center (neCC). though neCC chief Barry Cadden called his company the "Ferrari of Compounders," it was a slapdash operation of unqualified staff, moldridden lab surfaces, and hastily made medications that were injected into approximately 14,000 people. now, investigative journalist Jason Dearen turns a spotlight on this tragedy—the victims, the heroes, and the perpetrators—and the legal loopholes that allowed it to occur.