From the Bookshelf of Tyler Public Library…

[close] No one is better at world building than Bacigalupi. Bacigalupi’s “The Windup Girl” is one of the best sci-fi novels ever written & the future portrayed in “The Water Knife” is similarly bleak. The post-apocalyptic Water Knife is set in the desert Southwestern states of AZ, NV, and CA where water rights are brokered and stolen and violence is waged over the dwindling Colorado River. This is a fast-paced and violent action thriller has an appealing protagonist, Angel Velasquez, is as much villain as hero. Both he and journalist Lucy Monroe are in search of an ancient water deed that can change everyone’s precarious future for good or ill. Riveting and Highly Recommended.