A shocking tale of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence - straight out of the latest headlines.
Recently divorced surgeon Dr Kim Reggis is determined to remain a good father to his only child, Becky. One night he takes her to a fast-food restaurant for a feast of burgers and fries, but tragedy strikes when the young girl falls ill. She dies horrifically several days later, as a result of poisoning by E coli bacteria.
Everything suggests her death was a result of shoddy food-handling practices, but who is going to admit to that?
Frantic with grief, Kim throws all his energies into tracing the cause of the contamination. He is well prepared for bureaucratic indifference, but is soon met with terrifying violence as powerful vested interests conspire to discourage his enquiries.
Aided by his ex-wife, Kim pursues a deadly trail of complicity and guilt stretching from the slaughterhouse floor to the corporate bedroom. And, in a race against time before others are poisoned, they finally come face to face with the shocking and elusive truth . . . meanwhile putting their own lives in extreme danger.
