nudensa.blogg.se - The water knife by paolo bacigalupi

She can’t seem to abandon the chaos that surrounds her, hoping for that one big story.

Lucy Monroe is a Pulitzer winning journalist who has stayed in Phoenix longer than she intended to, making a dangerous living reporting on the water wars.

After being released from prison by Catherine Case, Angel now works for her as her most trusted "water knife" a hired henchman, assassin and spy who sneaks into the water boards of Nevada’s rival states, California and Arizona, sabotaging and destroying their water supplies.

Angel Velasquez was born in Mexico and fled the country with his father after gang members murdered his mother and sister.

It takes place in the near future, where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States. It is Bacigalupi's sixth novel, and is based on his short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, first published in the news magazine High Country News. The Water Knife is a 2015 science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi.