In the halls of Congress, on the streets, in the media, the war on fast
food is on. Tofu may be topical, but bacon is eternal.
Bacon and Egg Man, Ken Wheaton's second novel, is a sly send-up of a
politically correct food establishment, where the Northeast has split
off from the rest of the United States. The new Federation is ruled by
the electoral descendants of King Mike, a man who made it his mission to
form a country based on good, clean living.
But you can't keep good food down. And Wes Montgomery, a journalist at
the last print paper in the Federation, is a mild-mannered bacon-and-egg
dealer on the side. Until he gets pinched and finds himself thrust into
Chief Detective Blunt's wild-eyed plot to bring down the biggest illegal
food supplier in the land. To make matters worse, Wes is partnered with
Detective Hillary Halstead, the cop who, while undercover, became his
girlfriend.
Their journey takes them from submarine lairs to sushi speakeasies, from
Montauk to Manhattan, where they have to negotiate with media magnate
the Gawker before a climactic rendezvous with the secretive man who
supplies the Northeast with its high-cholesterol contraband, the most
eternal of all breakfast foods: bacon and eggs.
