The Raging Flood Author:R T Larkin For nearly forty years the giant federal dam loomed over the desert gambling resort of El Paradisio. Right from the start, its construction was marked by violence and bloodshed, and now it was in the news again. An engineer named Cordovan warned that sooner or later the mammoth dam--weakend by years of stress and shoddy construction--would bre... more »ak, flooding half the state and killing thousands of people.« less