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The Water Knife
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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The Water Knife
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Publisher's Summary
Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, dives once again into our uncertain future with his first thriller for adults since his multi-award-winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl.
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.
When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. There he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything she represents.
With bodies piling up, bullets flying, and Phoenix teetering on collapse, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria, time is running out, and their only hope for survival rests in each other's hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
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- Sar
- 11-11-2023
Slow to start but conceptually intriguing
Takes a while to get going but with a storyline that is believable and even makes you feel a little nervous for the future! If your into resource management, human rights, politics and activism you will likely enjoy. But settle in because it can be slow.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-2016
believable
Very Credible near-future thriller - elegantly conceived and written - superbly read by Almarie Guerra. Has resonances in strong states-rights, water shortages and internal refugee migrations. The ending is surprising and believably satisfying.
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- Chrissie
- 29-02-2016
So real
Slow to start, this book became very exciting. Who isn't affected by drought?
This book will grab you......AND what if?
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- Damith Abeysekera
- 12-05-2019
Surreal Speculative Fiction
The narrators voice was smooth and dry, perfect for a story about water rights. The world Bacigalupi wraps you up in feels so real and close you could taste it. And it's all intertwined in a detective noir esque plot.
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- Disco
- 18-05-2019
Brilliant all round
best story I've read in a long time
narrator better than any I've heard before. captures voices perfectly
highly recommended
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- Liang
- 23-02-2022
A brutal but enthralling story
A brutal world, with great character development, and insights to the psyche of those characters.
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