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"Your perfect beach book has arrived. With , Jeff Benedict manages to deliver the full literary experience of a medico-legal thriller in a work of nonfiction that, fortuitously enough, could not be more relevant to recent headlines."In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, award-winning journalist and best-selling author Jeff Benedict chronicles the events surrounding the biggest food-poisoning epidemic in US history and how this unprecedented crisis sparked public awareness about unsanitary practices in the fast food industry. draws on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the drama. is considered one of America's top nonfiction writers. He is the author of nine books including bestsellers , , and . His reporting has been the basis of feature segments on , ABC's , , HBO's , and the Discovery Channel. He is a contributor to and the , and his articles have been published in , , , and the . He has a law degree and is a distinguished professor of English at Southern Virginia University.