Foul Rising by Mark H. Bliss

 Foul Rising by Mark H. Bliss - 201 pages

Floodwalls are meant to protect people. But what if they do just the opposite? What if they only make flooding worse for those not behind the wall? Professor Tanner Holloway thinks so. So does Harvey Winston, mayor of East Elmwood, Illinois, a small, blue-collar village across the Mississippi River from the floodwall-protected city of Elmwood in Southeast Missouri.

This fictional book is based on Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  I have been to Cape Girardeau and have seen the flood wall and its artwork.