Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

by Jeff Benedict
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat

by Jeff Benedict

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Overview

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY

From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.


On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause was E. coli O157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.

In Poisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster, drawing on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the drama—the families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identified E. coli as the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued. Fast Food Nation meets A Civil Action in this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982190170
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 01/10/2023
Edition description: Media Tie-In
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 1,070,257
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeff Benedict is the bestselling author of seventeen nonfiction books. He’s also a film and television producer. He is the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Tiger Woods. The book was the basis of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Tiger, which Benedict executive produced. The Dynasty, the definitive inside story of the New England Patriots under Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady, was a New York Times bestseller. The book is the basis of a forthcoming ten-part documentary series for Apple TV+, which Benedict is executive producing. His critically acclaimed book Poisoned is the basis of a Netflix documentary, which Benedict executive produced. His legal thriller Little Pink House was adapted into a motion picture starring Catherine Keener and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Benedict wrote Steve Young’s New York Times bestselling autobiography QB, which was the basis of an NFL Films documentary. Benedict’s upcoming biography of LeBron James will be published in 2023.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Cast of Characters xiii

A Note to Readers xvii

Chapter 1 Silent Night 1

Chapter 2 Chomping at the Bit 13

Chapter 3 Something Bad 19

Chapter 4 Proof Positive 25

Chapter 5 We've Got an Issue 31

Chapter 6 Where Did Your Child Eat? 39

Chapter 7 Flying Blind 45

Chapter 8 An Awful Surprise 55

Chapter 9 Expired 57

Chapter 10 It Pays to Be Nice 61

Chapter 11 Tell Me about E. Coli 67

Chapter 12 Testimony 79

Chapter 13 Expert Witnesses 93

Chapter 14 No Miracles or Tragedies 99

Chapter 15 The Awakening 107

Chapter 16 Strings Attached 113

Chapter 17 Nobody Blames You 119

Chapter 18 A Shitload of Money 123

Chapter 19 Pickpocket 133

Chapter 20 Gearing Up 141

Chapter 21 The Devil You Know 145

Chapter 22 Four-Seasons Justice 151

Chapter 23 Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 157

Chapter 24 A Total Long Shot 163

Chapter 25 I Don't Mean to Be Impolite 169

Chapter 26 In Your Face 173

Chapter 27 Baby Steps 179

Chapter 28 Just an Associate 183

Chapter 29 It's Personal 191

Chapter 30 Lucky 195

Chapter 31 Fiduciary Matters 201

Chapter 32 You Have to Trust Me 209

Chapter 33 Food-Safety Advocates 213

Chapter 34 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 217

Chapter 35 Contempt 223

Chapter 36 Wizards of Oz 226

Chapter 37 The New Normal 232

Chapter 38 The Reckoning 236

Chapter 39 The Suggestion Box 240

Chapter 40 Bingo 243

Chapter 41 Turning Point 247

Chapter 42 The Deposition 254

Chapter 43 What You Need 262

Chapter 44 Unheard-Of 265

Chapter 45 Show Some Brass 272

Chapter 46 Focused and Frightened 276

Chapter 47 The Magnetic Moment 284

Chapter 48 Enough Money to Go Around 288

Chapter 49 It's in Juice, Too 292

Epilogue 295

Acknowledgments 303

Source Notes 307

Index 309

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