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The Water Knife

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Product Code: 9780804171533
ISBN13: 9780804171533
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ?A "fresh, genre-bending thriller?(Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game. "Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez ?uts?water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.





Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: Apr 05, 2016
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Fiction
ISBN-10: 080417153X
ISBN-13: 9780804171533

The Water Knife

$19.00
$18.25
Sale 4%
 
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ?A "fresh, genre-bending thriller?(Los Angeles Times) set in the near future when water is scarce and a spy, a hardened journalist and a young Texas migrant find themselves pawns in a corrupt game. "Think Chinatown meets Mad Max." NPR, All Things Considered In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez ?uts?water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Angel is sent south, hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, and when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.





Author: Paolo Bacigalupi
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: Apr 05, 2016
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback/Fiction
ISBN-10: 080417153X
ISBN-13: 9780804171533
 

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