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The Food Chain Breaks: Global Disaster Scenarios
Paperback
Series: Global Disaster Scenarios, Book 18
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 1 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the world's harvests begin failing, every nation has an explanation.
Drought destroys wheat in Kansas. Floods drown rice fields in Vietnam. Locusts devour farms in Ethiopia. Fungus spreads through corn in Brazil. War strangles grain shipments across borders. At first, it looks like ordinary disaster in a world already stretched too thin.
Then the failures begin to align.
Dr. Elian Voss, a food security analyst at the Global Food Stability Center in Geneva, discovers a terrifying pattern: crops are surviving the entire growing season, reaching harvest, and then rotting all at once. The disease does not kill plants early. It waits until the grain is full, until farmers have invested everything, until nations are counting on the food to arrive.
Then it breaks the chain.
As bread riots erupt, governments hoard grain, black markets rise, and cities turn violent, Elian uncovers a buried seed batch tied to a powerful agricultural corporation: HX-13-7A. Officially, it was destroyed after a failed resilience experiment. Unofficially, pieces of it have moved through relief programs, private vaults, illegal seed auctions, and secret government test fields.
With scientist Dr. Sana Mirek and former customs investigator Leyla Aran, Elian races across a collapsing world to find the original batch before the next planting season spreads the blight into the future of food itself.
But the deeper they dig, the more horrifying the truth becomes. This disaster was not allowed to spread by accident. The powerful knew. They redirected clean seed to themselves, hid the danger from farmers, and treated famine as leverage.
Now the original seed has been taken to the most secure private food reserve on Earth-a frozen vault beneath Arctic ice known as the Ark. Inside, billionaires, governments, corporations, and military contractors are deciding who gets to control what grows after the world starves.
To save the next harvest, Elian may have to destroy the very future he came to protect.
The Food Chain Breaks is a terrifying global thriller about hunger, greed, biological catastrophe, and the fragile systems that keep civilization fed.
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