Environmental engine
Soil science, crop failure, agricultural economics.
Book 3 · The Environmental Crimes Files
Dead Soil
When the harvest fails, follow the pattern.
A crop disease devastates farms across the Midwest. Infection clusters, seed dependence and financial pressure suggest the collapse may have been made profitable long before the first field failed.
Why this case matters
Pushes the team into food systems and the politics of dependency.
What is at stake
A biological crisis becomes a mechanism for market capture.
Explore the series
Get to know the recurring investigators, or explore the other cases in reading order.