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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Part I -- 1. A Death in Mud Lick -- 2. Prescription for Pain -- 3. Kings of Kermit -- 4. The Easter Bunny -- 5. Raided -- 6. Addicts' Rights -- 7. A Step Up -- Part II -- 8. A Seismic Shift -- 9. The Pekingese -- 10. Sustained Outrage -- 11. The Chase -- 12. Hunger Games -- 13. The Drop -- 14. Dragging and Lagging -- 15. A Door Cracked Open -- Part III -- 16. Eighteen Words -- 17. A Legal Cartel -- 18. Home Court -- 19. High Noon -- 20. 780 Million Pills, 1,728 Deaths -- 21. Misery's Price Tag -- Part IV -- 22. List of the Dead -- 23. Damage Control -- 24. A Death in Marrowbone Creek -- 25. "How in God's Name?" -- 26. Bankrupt -- 27. Paper and Tapes -- 28. "What's the Punishment?" -- 29. Whose Pills? -- 30. Three Feet Deep -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Across the globe, corruption presents a major risk that reduces construction project performances by inflating costs and reducing the quality of the infrastructure commissioned. In developing countries, corruption stifles economic development and engenders social inequality. Using a structured questionnaire survey to elicit direct knowledge and lived experiences of construction practitioners, this study uncovered the prevalence and forms of corrupt practices within the developing country of Ghana. Research findings illustrate that habitual corruption and unethical behavior prevail among public officials, contractors, and construction professionals during the bid evaluation, tendering, and contract implementation stages of a construction contract. This research proffers that corruption is driven by a toxic concoction of high political connections, excessive and reckless sole sourcing of public construction projects, lack of commitment by construction companies in addressing corruption, and the inherently idiosyncratic operational environment of the construction sector. The top five forms of corruption frequently encountered, in descending order, are kickbacks (extortion), bribery, collusion and tender rigging, conflict of interest, and fraud. This research presents a rare glimpse of construction industry corruption in a developing country and provides polemic clarity geared to intellectually challenge readers in government and industry. Future work is required to explore and develop appropriate countermeasures to address corrupt practices and behaviors.

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