The Water Knife
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080417153X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. WATER IS POWER In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. 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.. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who dreams of escaping north. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas
It's like the Windup Girl in no way at all Having said "The Windup Girl" was one of the best novels I had read in a longtime I may have had too high expectations coming into this. With the exception of the twist on the second to last page - this was not really a good story. We get it - the author read Cadi. A well-researched thriller only occasionally marred by predictable tropes When our aquifers are full and our rivers swell the problems in The Water Knife don't seem to exist. But this is a story in which push comes to shove, and it shoves hard.Bacigalupi has crafted quite a good story around the very present, very real quagmire of a pri. Paul C Hawkins said Not quite The Wind-Up Girl.. A solid effort from Bacigalupi. This is only the second book of his I have read, after The Wind-Up Girl. The two have quite a different feel. Overall he evokes his dessicated world of hydro-haves and hydro-have nots very well, but many of the characters I found di
Bleak, troubling, and at the same time deeply hopeful as Bacigalupi’s complex characters define and defend their loyalties, The Water Knife delivers a final scene as unexpected as it is satisfying. When a rumor surfaces of water rights so senior that they would trump all existing rights and give Phoenix a chance to bloom instead of continue its rampant slide into death by drought, the race is on to find the rights, and no one will survive unharmed. An Best Book of June 2015: Three very different characters—an orphaned Texan teen marooned in Phoenix; the “water knife” Angel from Las Vegas who will break any law he needs to in order to pave the way for his boss to gain the water rights she wants; and journalist Lucy Monroe, who has adopted drought-decimated Phoenix as her own—thrust Bacigalupi’s near-future tale through violence and betrayal toward a blockbuster
He is also a winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the John W. PAOLO BACIGALUPI is a Hugo, Nebula, and Michael L. Campbell Award, and a three-time winner of the Locus Award. He lives with his wife and son in western Colorado, where he is working on a new novel. windupstories. Printz Award win