Sign-In
Cart
Burning Ground: The Water Conspiracy
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The water bill should have been my first clue, but I dismissed it as bureaucratic incompetence. After all, how do you charge for water to a house that burned to the ground three weeks earlier? It wasn't a mistake. It was evidence.
My name is Jake Sullivan, and this is the story of an environmental fraud so sophisticated it has operated in plain sight for more than a decade.
The science is simple. Restrict water flow. Manipulate power grids. Schedule maintenance at exactly the wrong moment. A wildfire ignites, right where it is needed, right on time. The business model is even simpler: burn homes, displace residents, rezone land, and profit. What makes it staggering is the coordination. Insurance companies, developers, and utility providers move quietly together, using fire season as cover for the largest land grab California has ever seen.
They call it adaptive land management. I call it state-sponsored arson. The mechanisms remain intact, the incentives unchanged, and the next natural disaster is already being framed as unavoidable.
What I uncovered goes far beyond my father's house or my hometown. Entire communities disappear without leaving a trace, their destruction buried beneath reports, statistics, and sanitized language. Those who believe they are safe may already be standing on land marked for the next phase.
The work is slow and precise, hidden in reports, anomalies, and patterns that only emerge when examined closely. Each detail sharpens the picture. Each discovery carries risk. Ignoring it is not an option.
I may not stop the next fire. But the evidence is mounting, the truth is coming into focus, and this story will come out.
Also from
Hawkins, David
In Sickness and in Health: The Physical Consequences of Emotional Stress in Marriage
Hawkins, David
Paperback
Midas Technical Analysis: A Vwap Approach to Trading and Investing in Today's Markets
Coles, Andrew
Hawkins, David
Hardcover
Also in
Mystery & Thriller
The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume I: American Tabloid, the Cold Six Thousand; Introduction by Thomas Mallon
Ellroy, James
Hardcover
Coffin Road: An Utterly Gripping Crime Thriller from the Author of the China Thrillers
May, Peter
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie Tie-In Edition): Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy
Larsson, Stieg
Paperback
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
Big Little Truths: Reese's Book Club: A Novel: The Sequel to Big Little Lies
Moriarty, Liane
Hardcover
The Pirate Queen: A Novel from the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Frozen River
Lawhon, Ariel
Hardcover
The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World
Cahn, Jonathan
Hardcover