From the author of Canowic, a new novel depicting a harrowing future.

Chris Fitzgerald is used to bad news. As a war reporter, it sometimes seems like all he knows. But now that the biggest story of his career has arrived, it involves a twist even he could not have expected; he’s being sent home.

California is in crisis. A militia group has assassinated the mayor of San Francisco over a water shortage decades in the making, and Chris and his longtime reporting partner Luis are dispatched to cover the ensuing unrest. As the conflict develops, both men are forced to grapple with the ultimate value of their work, and the complicated reasons each of them has for continually seeking danger. Overtaken by events, Chris and Luis soon find themselves hurtling towards a reckoning which will prove whether the nation, and their own fraught identities, can hold together.

Spanning continents and cultures, Strike the Waters is a moving literary portrait of human beings in the crucible of war, and an all-too-plausible glimpse into our collective future.