Lara Santoro, a veteran journalist, discusses her first novel, *Mercy*, a tragic and powerful story of what it is like to die of AIDS in Africa. *Mercy* offers a glimpse into the role played by the pharmaceutical industry and the US government against the interests of an entire continent, and gives a name and face to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This is a story Santoro has seen played out many times in her prize-winning coverage of Africa for *Newsweek* and the *Christian Science Monitor*. Her work has also appeared in *The Wall Street Journal*, *The New Republic* and the *London Sunday Times*.
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