The Cyanide Canary
A True Story of Injustice

3.5 stars Since time immemorial there's been a tug-of-war between entrepreneurs - whose goal is to make money - and anything that might reduce profits. Thus employers/corporations have been known to sell harmful or flawed products; make employees work in unsafe conditions; despoil the environment; an......more

We lived and worked in eastern Washington State during the mid-1990s for environmental companies and both had to take safety classes where they explained the dangers of confined space entries and the precautions you have to take for working in those environments, not to mention all the other regulat......more

This is one of those true stories that really engaged my interest and my emotions, a courtroom drama about a man who callously disregarded laws about worker safety and toxic waste, causing the permanent (and tragically unnecessary) brain damage and disability of one of his young employees. Many peop......more

4.5 stars Robert Dugoni is an author I've enjoyed time and again but until now I'd only read his fiction titles. His narrative non fiction The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice, written in conjunction with Joseph Hilldorfer, tells the tragically true story of an environmental crime which resu......more