Eli Lilly & Co. admitted yesterday that it had fired an employee for writing a book about his time at Pfizer Inc., his former employer, according to an Associated Press wire story by Theresa Agovino. The book, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy, tells of high pay and low expectations at Pfizer and, according to Eli Lilly & Co., “advocated actions that were in violation of Lilly’s policies.” Among such actions, “In the book, for example, Reidy admits he exaggerated how often he visited doctors. He also says in the book that he ordered extra food when he visited physicians’ offices so he could take the leftovers home for dinner.”