From the international bestselling author ofthe Hugo and Nebula award-winning The Windup Girl,comes an electrifyingthriller set in a world on the edge of collapse.WATER IS POWERTheAmerican Southwest has been decimated by drought,Nevada and Arizonaskirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River,while Californiawatches.When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix,Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez is sent to investigate.Witha wallet full of identities and a tricked-out Tesla,Angel arrowssouth,hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat indexsoars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There,Angelencounters Lucy Monroe,a hardened journalist who knows far more aboutPhoenix's water secrets than she admits,and Maria Villarosa,a youngTexas migrant who dreams of escaping north to those places where waterstill falls from the sky.As bodies begin to pile up and bulletsstart flying,the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger,morecorrupt,and dirtier than any of them could have imagined. With Phoenixteetering on the verge of collapse and time running out,their onlyhope for survival rests in one another's hands.But when water ismore valuable than gold,alliances shift like sand,and the only truthin the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes todrink.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780356500546Number of pages: 496Weight: 348 gDimensions: 195 x 128 x 32 mm
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This is the best kind of science fiction. An intense thriller and a deeply insightful vision of the coming century,laid out in all its pain and glory. It's a water knife indeed,right to the heart
Anyone can write about the future. Paolo Bacigalupi writes about the future that we're making today,if we keep going the way we are. It makes his writing beautiful...and terrifyingThese days are coming,and as always fiction explains them better than fact.This is a spectacular thriller,wonderfully imagined and written,and racing through it will make you think - and make you thirsty - Lee ChildThe Water Knife is a noir-tinged,apocalyptic vision of the near-future: What will the world be like,and how will we live in it Bacigalupi already seems to live there. Once I started,I couldn't put it down - Kelly LinkBacigalupi is a worthy successor to William Gibson - Time
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