Sci-Fi Book Group: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Emiko is a genetically engineered concubine, designed expressly to serve her master. Anderson Lake works for a Western agricultural corporation, and is undercover in Thailand to lay claim to the seeds of a fruit that is resistant to the plagues ravaging the planet. When Emiko feeds Lake information about the Thai seed bank, she unwittingly triggers a civil war.