To The Last Drop: A Novel of Water, Oppression, and Rebellion
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the Last Drop follows five characters through the course of a war
between Texas and New Mexico. The novel begins with the accidental discovery
of water in the arid southeast corner of New Mexico. Texas and New Mexico
become tangled in a bitter legal dispute over the rights to that water.
A series of increasingly aggressive border skirmishes leads to an invasion
by the Texas State Guard.
The Texas militia sweeps aside the paltry resistance and occupies New
Mexico. The conquered territory is renamed New Texas. The Military Governor
exploits New Texas for its water while forcing it to pay for the cost
of its own occupation.
Resistance to the Texas occupation begins in isolated pockets strung
together by a pirate radio station. Censorship and brutality by Texas
leads to violent reprisals by a growing insurgency. The rebellion burns
in the city streets, on the internet and throughout the remote desert
mountains.
The Texas State Guard overextends itself trying to guard against both
the insurgency and the troublesome Mexican border. The Mexican Army
invades, toppling the New Texas government. In the aftermath, the many
sectarian factions gather to claim their water rights, exposing an uncertain
and troubled future.
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I was born Andrew David Wice in 1974 to two Political Science
professors in Pittsburgh, PA. I learned to walk in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I was raised in New Jersey and Washington, D.C More...
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