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The Colorado Cipher (Large Print Edition)
Hardcover
Series: The Hans Adler Water, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781967866847
Publisher: Harper Law
Published: Mar 6 2026
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In The Colorado Cipher, former intelligence investigator Hans Adler is assigned to a crisis unfolding not in a distant war zone, but within his own country. The Colorado River lifeline of 40 million people, seven states, tribal nations, and vast agricultural empires is collapsing under a century of over-allocation, political paralysis, and climate-driven decline. As reservoirs plunge toward dead pool, Hans documents a national failure unfolding in slow motion, revealing how America's most critical water system became a symbol of institutional breakdown.
From the alarming decline of Lake Mead to the legal battles surrounding tribal water rights, from the agricultural entitlement wars of the Imperial Valley to the growing desperation of cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix, Hans traces an environmental truth few in power want exposed. Each discovery reveals deeper layers of denial, corruption, and political gridlock-what he calls the Colorado Cipher, a century-old arithmetic mistake now threatening millions.
But as Hans navigates engineers, policymakers, tribal advocates, environmental activists, and state negotiators, he faces a question he has long avoided: can documenting the truth still make a difference, or is he simply recording America's most predictable disaster?
Smart, urgent, and hauntingly real, The Colorado Cipher is a gripping eco-thriller and political investigation about the water crisis poised to reshape the American West.
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