The Water Knife

The Water Knife

2015 • 371 pages

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Working as an enforcer for a corrupt developer, Angel Velasquez teams up with a hardened journalist and a street-smart Texan to investigate rumors of California's imminent monopoly on limited water supplies. By the National Book Award-finalist author of The Windup Girl.


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Thought it wasn't that bad. Certainly good summer reading.

July 30, 2015
June 1, 2016

Read the first third of the book, enjoyed it thus far. It's a dark world, which became a turn off due to a personal setback.

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