Merry Farm (Rise Up Trilogy Book 2)

Description

After breaking into an egg farm in order to expose a corrupt food industry giant, Alex comes across deformed, dead chickens in tiny cages covered with edemas and purple discoloration. As he only narrowly escapes armed guards, he realizes that he has witnessed a cover-up of an outbreak of bird flu. Merry Farm is about to receive a government approval for a merger that would bring in several billions of extra subsidies every year. Alex turns to his best friends Hashim and Maryam for help, and together they decide to go hiding until they figure out what to do next.

When a runaway farm worker is found at the roadside half-dead and diagnosed with a novel strain of bird flu, Merry Farm launches a massive fake news campaign to frame Alex and Hashim as bioterrorists responsible for infecting the livestock. As the deadly virus starts to spread undetected among the displaced workers of the egg farm and beyond, Merry Farm sends a team of killers to hunt them down.

However, the three best friends must first come to terms with their past in order to find what it takes to expose the callous cover-up and stop the virus before it turns into a pandemic.

The Rise Up Trilogy is a coming-of-age story about Hashim, Alex, and Maryam, three best friends on the threshold of adulthood. Before they can find their place in this world, they must come to terms with their past and learn to confide in each other as they are confronted by intolerance and ignorance, corporate greed and governmental inaction that threaten to rob them of their future. Inspirational, harrowing, intense, and deeply moving, this trilogy presents a ray of hope amidst terrible hardship, misfortune, and loss.