WATER IS POWER
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In the near future the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. 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. 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.
An Amazon Best Book of June 2015: Three very different charactersan 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 conclusion th