Andrew Wice
novelist & screenwriter
"Is To The Last Drop a prophecy? A foreshadowing? A carefully calculated answer to the equation we’re still writing with each gallon down the drain?" -- Santa Fe Reporter
This novel was published by Bauu Press
on April 21st, 2008 .
This novel was published by Bauu Press
on April 21st, 2008 .
It is available at quality bookstores, such as Collected Works near the Plaza in Santa Fe.
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"Whiskey is for drinking,
and water is for fighting over."
-- Mark Twain
and water is for fighting over."
-- Mark Twain
When a slacker biologist accidentally discovers water in the parched desert of New Mexico, a war erupts.
Texas invades New Mexico, renaming the territory "New Texas."
A desperate insurgency fights the occupation with a brutal terror campaign in the cites, mountains and deserts.
Texas invades New Mexico, renaming the territory "New Texas."
A desperate insurgency fights the occupation with a brutal terror campaign in the cites, mountains and deserts.
To The Last Drop
dramatizes today's global water crisis. This novel illuminates the
development of the Southwest, the relationship between occupation and
terrorism, and our unquenchable thirst for water.
"Wice’s flowing narrative skill is the ideal remedy to quench an audience’s thirst."
-- Santa Fe Reporter
"Wice’s flowing narrative skill is the ideal remedy to quench an audience’s thirst."
-- Santa Fe Reporter
Synopsis
To 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.
Main Characters
Eddie Brown, amateur biologist and slacker, transforms into Dr. X, the leader of the New Mexican resistance. Hormigo, head of the Diablos motorcycle gang, is a vigilante partisan who fights for his own interests.
Billy Ortiz, indigent and disenfranchised, becomes the sort of hero who is never remembered by history.
U.S. Armstrong, Military Governor of New Texas, is a successful businessman whose aspirations condemn his family’s dignity.
Taylor Jon Bridges, a vulgar young speedfreak, is a violent shock trooper for the Texas State Guard.