DEAD LEG

A dead leg is a section of pipe that carries no flow. Stagnant water. The right temperature, the right chemistry, and the right bacteria find it eventually.

Jackson Huff has been tracking a contamination signature through maintenance records at three separate Gulf Coast facilities — same contractor, same material spec, different official explanations. The pipe is already installed. The contamination is already building.

By the time anyone else connects the same dots, the dead leg will have done exactly what it was designed to do.

Dead Leg is Book 5 in the Jackson Huff Critical Infrastructure series.