Toxin By Robin Cook

One evening, recently divorced surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, takes Becky to a fast-food restaurant for a feast of burgers and fries, but tragedy strikes when the young girl falls ill. She dies horrifically as a result of poisoning by E. coli Bacteria. Everything suggests that her death was the 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 the 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 slaughter house floor to the corporate boardroom.