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Jason Kraft, an agent in the DEA's covert operations group has just been assigned to infiltrate a large tobacco farm in Connecticut. This farm is thought responsible for a special strain of genetically engineered tobacco, known to look and smell like normal tobacco, but it has the chemical component THC, having a similar effect to potent marijuana when smoked. It is critical Jason find the origin of the strain and destroy it before it hits the streets.
This assignment takes him into the world of a complex manufacturing operation for Connecticut shade tobacco, to infiltrate the largest farm in the region where expensive cigar wrapper leaves are grown.
The FBI is also interested; they unknowingly assign Jason's former lover Alondra, to work the investigation with him. Their relationship is rekindled as they reunite for this common goal, to find the strain.
Alondra, of Puerto Rican decent, develops her own agenda: to fight for equality of pay and working conditions for the large contingent of Puerto Rican workers on the farm. She works to bring light and broadcast these conditions to the media, to bring labor unions in for the first time to help establish more wages and a better life for the seasonal Puerto Rican farm workers, who for years have toiled in deplorable working conditions. Connecticut tobacco growers have grown rich from what can only be described as sanctioned slave labor.
They are both close to accomplishing their goals, but now they have a choice to make. If Jason finds the strain, the farm closes down and Alondra will lose the opportunity to establish unions, better working conditions and labor equality for the first time in the Connecticut tobacco industry.
Jason and Alondra must decide which side they're on; the side of the law, or the side for social justice.
Read this book to learn all about how shade tobacco is grown and how children and migrant workers have toiled for years to make Connecticut farmers wealthy. The plot is contrived and the characters are not real, but the descriptions of tobacco operations, activities in the fields, depictions of migrant farm labor and the plight of the workers in the Connecticut shade tobacco industry are 100 percent real.
This assignment takes him into the world of a complex manufacturing operation for Connecticut shade tobacco, to infiltrate the largest farm in the region where expensive cigar wrapper leaves are grown.
The FBI is also interested; they unknowingly assign Jason's former lover Alondra, to work the investigation with him. Their relationship is rekindled as they reunite for this common goal, to find the strain.
Alondra, of Puerto Rican decent, develops her own agenda: to fight for equality of pay and working conditions for the large contingent of Puerto Rican workers on the farm. She works to bring light and broadcast these conditions to the media, to bring labor unions in for the first time to help establish more wages and a better life for the seasonal Puerto Rican farm workers, who for years have toiled in deplorable working conditions. Connecticut tobacco growers have grown rich from what can only be described as sanctioned slave labor.
They are both close to accomplishing their goals, but now they have a choice to make. If Jason finds the strain, the farm closes down and Alondra will lose the opportunity to establish unions, better working conditions and labor equality for the first time in the Connecticut tobacco industry.
Jason and Alondra must decide which side they're on; the side of the law, or the side for social justice.
Read this book to learn all about how shade tobacco is grown and how children and migrant workers have toiled for years to make Connecticut farmers wealthy. The plot is contrived and the characters are not real, but the descriptions of tobacco operations, activities in the fields, depictions of migrant farm labor and the plight of the workers in the Connecticut shade tobacco industry are 100 percent real.
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