In this irreverent novel, the Northeast has split off from the rest of the United States on a mission to form a country based on good, clean living. But you can't keep good food down. Journalist and bacon and egg dealer Wes Montgomery and undercover cop Hillary Halstead negotiate with media magnate The Gawker; before a climactic rendezvous with the secretive man who supplies the Northeast with its heady high cholesterol contraband, the most eternal of all breakfast foods: bacon and eggs.