What makes for a good novel? Tension, for sure. Some high stakes for the characters. Questions of life and death. The issue of water in the west has all those elements, says former US Senator from Colorado, Gary Hart. His new novel is called “Durango” and it’s set at a time when southwest Colorado is bitterly divided over the Animas-La Plata dam and reservoir project, which after decades of debate, was finished last year. Senator Hart sat down with host Ryan Warner.
