Book ID: CBB052570770

The Water Knife (2016)

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Bacigalupi, Paolo (Author)


Vintage


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 384 pages
Language: English

WATER IS POWER 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.

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Review Roger Eardley-Pryor (2017) Review of "The Water Knife". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (pp. 5-6). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Stroshane, Tim
Williams, John
Dryer, Theodora
Bickers, Margaret A.
Sansom, Andrew
Jacobs, Jeffrey
Concepts
Water resource management
Water supply
Drought
Rivers
Water
Environmental history
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Colorado River (North America)
Great Britain
Great Plains (North America)
Texas (U.S.)
Colorado (U.S.)
Institutions
History of the Urban Environment Book Series
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