Italian Gangster Takes On Big Pharma to Save His Sick Son

Patrick Girondi is an Italian-American singer, composer and pharmaceutical executive/patient advocate. In his book, Patrick Girondi hunts for a cure for Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia in the world of gene therapy. Girondi writes: “I’d been strangled, shot at, skated more than twenty arrests, made it through 3 FBI witch-hunts and went from the docks to trading and big money. I would see my son cured.” But again, the success of the cure—and the fate of his son—is imperiled, in a world of lab jackets, mysterious deaths, and cut-throat Wall Street banksters.