(8 audio cassettes) Bacterial contamination, product tampering and the evil of big business in this latest Robin Cook thriller. Dr. Kim Reggis, one of the country's top cardiac surgeons, finds himself ill-equipped to deal with a medical catastrophe involving his own daughter, Becky. Newly divorced, Reggis takes Becky to her favorite fast-food restaurant. After the meal, she sickens and dies. Concentrated with fury, anger and grief, Reggis vows to find out how and why. A trail of deadly evidence leads from the slaughterhouse floor to the corporate boardroom. Aided in his quest by his ex-wife, Tracy, Reggis races against time before more people are poisond by the E. coli bacteria. Reggis and Tracy ultimately learn the grim truth that fuels today's fears and tomorrow's headlines- and rediscover the reasons why they fell in love in the first place. A gripping novel of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence, from the dean of medical thrillers.