just how safe is americas meat supply recent health scares and new public awareness have made this one of todays most controversial subjects and the basis of robin cooks most startling and important novelwhen a doctors daughter becomes infected with e coli the widespread dangers of bacterial contamination are no longer a subject for debate but a grim reality in desperation he is forced to follow a trail of ignorance and corruption from the tangled redtape of the medical community to the highest levels of the powerful meat industry it is an eyeopening thriller that every american should read