Knopf
June 2015
On Sale: May 26, 2015
Featuring: Angel Velasquez; Catherine Case; Lucy Monroe
384 pages ISBN: 0385352875 EAN: 9780385352871 Kindle: B00NRQOR26 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling
author of The Windup Girl and National Book Award
finalist, delivers a near-future thriller that casts new
light on how we live today—and what may be in store for us
tomorrow.
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada
and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado
River, while California watches, deciding if it should just
take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las
Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and
spy, Angel “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water
Authority and its boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her
lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the
desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the
gutted-suburban dust.
When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in
Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. With a wallet full of
identities and a tricked-out Tesla, Angel arrows south,
hunting for answers that seem to evaporate as the heat index
soars and the landscape becomes more and more oppressive.
There, Angel encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist,
who knows far more about Phoenix’s water secrets than she
admits, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas migrant, who
dreams of escaping north to those places where water still
falls from the sky.
As bodies begin to pile up and bullets start flying, the
three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger, more
corrupt, and dirtier than any of them could have imagined.
With Phoenix teetering on the verge of collapse and time
running out for Angel, Lucy, and Maria, their only hope for
survival rests in one another’s hands. But 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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