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Water knife

roman

Paolo Bacigalupi

Traduit de l'anglais par Sara Doke

Genres
Littérature › Science-fiction · suggéré d'après classement BnF, Wikidata
Titre original
The water knife
Éditeur
J'ai lu ses parutions →
Collection
Collection dirigée par Thibaud Eliroff toute la collection →
Parution
11 avril 2018
Pages
509
Format
broché, 18 cm
Prix éditeur
8,40 EUR
Langue
français 🇫🇷
ISBN
9782290138373 · 2290138371
Ailleurs
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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, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the gutted-suburban dust. 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. Decimated by drought, Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, waiting. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez, who "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. He becomes a pawn in a game far bigger, more corrupt, and dirtier than he could have imagined.

Water rights · Droughts · Fiction · Fiction, thrillers, general · Fiction, dystopian · Fiction, science fiction, general · Large type books · Dystopias · Western stories · nyt:hardcover-fiction=2015-06-14 · New York Times bestseller · Deserts · War · Spies · Secrets · Survival · Science fiction

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