- Terrorists, Fiction, Water rights, Terrorism
CEO and Washington D.C. insider James Sands has made billions by privatizing bankrupt municipal water supplies, but his command of a dwindling resource infuriates citizen and environmental groups. When his partner is assassinated by the shadowy Army of the Republic, Sands begins to lose control of his company and his life and turns to a private intelligence firm to eliminate the Army and any civil organizations that oppose him.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Cohen, Stuart
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 422
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, Picador
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312429058
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