Writer Bill Blum has long had a fascination with California's water wars. In fact, he actually used those wars as the backdrop for a legal thriller he wrote called The Last Appeal (Onyx, 1997). In that book, Blum's protagonist - a moody criminal defense attorney - tries to save the life of a death row inmate convicted of murdering a Berkeley professor of environmental science. Of course, the lawyer is convinced that his client is innocent, and in his hunt for the real killer he...
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