# The Water Knife - Paperback

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by **Paolo Bacigalupi** (Author)

**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 "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.

### Author Biography

PAOLO BACIGALUPI is a Hugo, Nebula, and Michael L. Printz Award winner, as well as a National Book Award finalist. He is also a winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and a three-time winner of the Locus Award. His short fiction has appeared in _The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,_ and _High Country News_. He lives with his wife and son in western Colorado, where he is working on a new novel.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** April 05, 2016

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Books, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Technological, Thrillers

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