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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — one of the most productive farming regions in the country, and one of the most quietly contaminated. When a family farm and its dying patriarch come under pressure from a company that never says the word buy, the paperwork tells one story and the water tells another.

The first of thirteen novels tracing how an institution fails — built entirely on the public record. Every statistic is real. Every corporation is invented. The distance between them is the point.