For three decades, the FDA denied approval of a first-in-class drug, "taxol," condemning thousands of breast-cancer victims to certain death. THE TAXOL THIEF is the story of one couple's attempt to evade that fate by smuggling taxol from China through Russia. Anastasia and Troy Locke had a bright future. She had just landed a college teaching position. He was a McDonald's manager with plans for a restaurant of his own, when their world caved in. His wife's diagnosis: Cancer. His dad offered his knowledge. "Taxol, perhaps?" Extracted from the yew tree, Julius Caesar's armies forged deadly...