When Feno Chemical spilled an experimental pesticide in rural Iowa, hundreds of people died. Those who survived contamination were herded into a US Army medically maintained quarantine and cut off from the world. Seven years later, the infrastructure is crimbling, supplies are dwindling, and nobody is getting clean. Ellie Cauley doesn't care anymore. Despite her paranoid best friend's insistence that conspiracies abound, she focuses on three things: staying high, hooking up with the Army sergeant she's not supposed to be fraternizing with and, most importantly, trying to ignore her ever-simmering rage. But when a series of deadly events rocks the compound, Ellie suspects her friend is right--something dangerous is going down in Flowertown and all signs point to a twisted plan of greed and abuse. 
 Wow, what a surprise! This book was a knock-out, despite running under the radar -- I'd heard about it a couple of years ago and stuck it on a to-read list, and there it rotted for a while, surviving the periodic purges but never really picked up. I started reading it, and didn't do *anything* until I finished it. Great book.