Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina

In 2005, the world watched in horror as a major American city-New Orleans-was nearly wiped off the map by an epic flood. Newscasters attributed the flooding to a “natural disaster.”

But one New Orleanian had her doubts.

Words Whispered in Water is the story of how-against all odds-one woman exposed the culprit in the catastrophic flooding and compelled the news media, and the government, to tell the truth.

Words Whispered in Water highlights the importance of exposing the bad behavior of giant...