The full inside story of the breathtaking rise & shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded
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On a late August night a young man is kicked to death outside a Dublin nightclub & celebration turns to devastation. The reverberations of that event, its genesis & aftermath, are the subject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a generation of Celtic cubs, whose social & sexual mores are chronicled & dissected in this tract for our times. The victim, Conor Harris, his killers
- three of them are charged with manslaughter
- & the trial judge share common childhoods & schooling in the privileged echelons of south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as public exposure merges with private anguish & imploded futures.