Seymour Grufferman

Livestock, Dead Stock

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Produktbeschreibung

"I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do." -Tommy ThompsonUS Secretary of Health and Human Services, December 3, 2004 This is a fast-paced agro-terrorism thriller set in England, the US, Pakistan, Yemen, and Ethiopia. A dark-skinned Pakistani veterinary technician in England endured a career of racial discrimination and verbal abuse. Just before his retirement, he steals infectious agents for serious and deadly animal diseases to avenge his mistreatment. He sells these agents to al Qaeda to supplement his meager pension. Al Qaeda decides to launch an attack on US livestock and crops using these and other infectious agents. In the US, former ISIS jihadis, all US citizens, are recruited to spread the infectious agents. Their attacks are wildly successful and result in the US facing food shortages, inflation, and rioting against the government. These devastating effects on US agriculture expose the glaring inadequacies of US intelligence agencies This third novel in the Winston Sage Trilogy is another chance for Win Sage to display his offbeat detective skills.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seymour Grufferman MD
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781732330238
• ISBN-10: 1732330239
• Artikelnr.: 60172050

Autorenporträt

Seymour Grufferman, MD, DrPH, is an epidemiologist who began his medical career as a pediatrician and went on to obtain three degrees in epidemiology from Harvard. After serving in the Air Force in Japan during the Vietnam War, he taught at the Gondar Public Health College in Ethiopia. He returned to the US for further training and spent the rest of his career in academic medicine, teaching and doing research at Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of New Mexico Schools of Medicine. His research was on cancer clusters and the causes of childhood and hematologic cancers. He is retired and enjoys living with his wife and dog in the hills outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is the first novel in a Winston Sage trilogy.