The United States is the center of capitalism, fast food, and the entrepreneurial spirit. Americans have found the good life and along with it their appetites. A demand for better food and meal offerings by restaurants both private and franchises has resulted in the restaurant dominance of Grandma's Table whose iconic front woman is a cherub faced woman with glasses perched high on her cheeks, a winning smile, and a shapely figure that has one wondering how you get a grandmother to look that good. What stands behind the woman is a multi-billion-dollar restaurant and food service distribution empire whose sole purpose is to prey upon the appetites of Americans. Creating a demand for a food's taste and quality is not new but using that to the advantage of a reawakening and well financed terror cell willing to use nanotechnology and genetic engineering to advance their cause is a less savory purpose. Dr. Jazz Adler, a Food Scientist and Jared Williams, a college dropout searching for his life's passion, stumble upon a terrorist plot that would make 9/11 look like a small accident and anything involving an assault rifle yesterday's news. With the help of a young Homeland Security agent they will do their best to stop the terror plan. How will they use this new-found information to warn the world of a plot that starts at a popular restaurant's kitchen and served to the American people? It looks good, it tastes good, but how can anything so healthy kill you so painfully and without mercy? There will be no cure for this foodborne illness and parasitic infection. Before anyone notices what has happened, millions of Americans will be infected, dying, or dead. Their bodies will be drained of fluids and life blood by an infestation that was conceived and deployed via modern science with genetic manipulation finding success in creating a foodborne parasitic attack on the United States. Man, and nature mutated Escherichia Coli into E. Coli O157: H7. As few as five organisms in dirty water, potato salad, undercooked beef, or the unwashed hand of a loved one can cause illness and death. This new man-made pathogenic parasite will cause death in all and it is no accidental mutation, but a well-planned inoculation of a food product enjoyed by many. Years of planning using the spirit of capitalism and entrepreneurship found in American culture. A forkful of terrorists will enter the mouths of all who sit at Grandma's Table. Written as science fiction grounded in science fact, Fast Food Terror is just a few educated religious fanatics from becoming reality. Nature created, and man will work to improve the relationship that makes a foodborne parasite an efficient torturous killing swarm within the bodies of their host.
About the Author: Jon Searles is a story teller that likes to write. He and his wife live on a ranch near Waco, Texas. Jon uses the people he meets and his personal experiences to fashion characters and stories.