Ross Adams is a transactional and intellectual property attorney in San Diego. He received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in History, his law degree from Boston University School of Law with honors, was a federal law clerk all before joining a marquee law firm as a business litigator. He spent the 1990s building technology company in post-communist Prague and Warsaw before exiting from that business and returning to San Diego where he's been practicing law for the past twenty-five years.

Mr. Adams also writes geopolitical thrillers exploring how resource scarcity, systemic pressure, and shifting power structures reshape the world. His work focuses on how small, often overlooked changes, economic, environmental, and political, can escalate into global consequences.

THE HAMMURABI CODE SERIES

The Siberian Question (2026)

BookLife Prize: 8.75 out of 10. Plot/Idea: 10 out of 10. Sponsored by Publishers Weekly.

2026 BookFest Featured Author.

2026 Chanticleer Global Thriller Awards Long List.

"Distinguishes itself by exploring how global power can shift through gradual, calculated change."

- The BookLife Prize

The Price of Water (2024)

BookLife Prize: 8.0 out of 10. Sponsored by Publishers Weekly.

2026 Chanticleer CLUE Awards Long List for Thriller and Suspense Fiction.

The Iranian Promise - Book 3 - in progress.

The trajectory is real. The timeline is fiction.

First chapter of either book free at rossadams.net/mailing-list.