
One Potato
Eddie Morales finds his lowly R&D life completely upended when his Boise-based biotech firm dispatches him to Puerto Malogrado, a tiny but tumultuous country in South America where the international media is accusing their experimental potatoes of causing a bizarre medical crisis. Eddie unwillingly arrives in South America only to find his plans for a quick resolution thwarted when he gets caught between the two sides of an impending revolution, each hoping to capitalize on the potato scandal in order to seize power.
Eddie stumbles into a conspiracy that reveals just how far his company will go to advance its potato empire. He is forced to make a choice. What―and who―will he sacrifice to preserve his own future in this brave new world of biotechnology?
Darkly funny and compassionately rendered, One Potato charts the crooked line between nature and technology and takes a deep look into a future shaped by disasters both natural and devastatingly man-made.
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Book details
- Author
- Tyler McMahon
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 336
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Fiction › Satire
Fiction › Science Fiction › Genetic Engineering
Fiction › Mystery & Detective › International Crime & Mystery - Topics
- satire · GMO crops · biotech industry · South America · political revolution · corporate conspiracy · science fiction thriller · food politics
- ISBN-13
- 9781684427833 (Hardcover)9781684427826 (Paperback)
About the author
TYLER McMAHON is the author of four novels, including One Potato, Dream of Another America, Kilometer 99 and How the Mistakes Were Made.
McMahon is a Professor of English at Hawai'i Pacific University and editor of Hawai'i Pacific Review.
Tyler lives in Honolulu with his wife, Dabney Gough.





