Watershed is a tale of intrigue, greed and revenge set against the looming water shortage in the American Southwest. The story is international in scope, framed against events foreshadowing a potentially vast drought catastrophe. Watershed makes it clear how easily such a calamity could happen.Watershed draws the reader into a furious, shadowy duel between a dedicated group of private citizens and a cunning, vengeful, international mogul.A hydrology engineer is killed in an airplane crash. Officially an accident. Unofficially, murder. Matt MacLeod, a friend of the victim, is summoned to assist in a secret investigation of his murder.

He uncovers a sinister scheme set in motion by a ruthless international industrialist to hold the continent's water resources to ransom and trigger a perilous clash between the US and Canada.