The Water Knife
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Water Knife is a 2015 novel by the American writer Paolo Bacigalupi, author of The Windup Girl, a near-future thriller of climate change and drought set in the American Southwest, published by Knopf. As the Colorado River dries up, states wage covert war over water rights. Angel Velasquez, a 'water knife' who enforces the will of Las Vegas water baron Catherine Case, travels to a crumbling Phoenix, where he crosses paths with a journalist and a young Texan refugee in a deadly hunt for senior water rights.
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- Margaret Atwood: “These are some of the books I have read and enjoyed. … A “climate fiction,” among other things. Yes, there will be water wars. … Philip Marlowe on speed, with water as blue gold.”