....or in the soup with Dr. Dan Coffee, Lt. Max Ritter and Robert Gilmore, public relations for Barzac Soup Company when its Home Economics Department chief is killed after eating a new army field ration. It is Coffee's pathological investigation which untangles the attacks on Gilmore, the meaning of the coded copy of Rousseau's Emile, the poisoning of the rations in orderly fashion. A bright brew.