The Age of Water

By Sean Craft

Rivers had become toxic and the ocean shore is a sea of plastic: there's money to be made. But for Philip Clarke, handsome, clever, and decidedly available, that world seemed a distraction from an altogether different one, where the possibilities of pleasure overwrote the machinery of commerce. Newly arrived in Hong Kong, his island world lay somewhere between the looming shadow of China, and its strange double downtown, where bankers and brokers breathed the same crowded air as a new breed of political activists. In his mind, he was thankfully immune from both. But the tranquillity of his island home and its heady gratifications, he slowly realizes, is anything but immune. As the environment collapses, as the water becomes as corrupt as the global business that feeds on it, and the law of brute power becomes the new political reality, even the stories he tells himself of love and the fulfillment of desire are, he comes to see, fractured by deceit and betrayal. 'The Age of Water' follows Clarke as the certainties of both private and public worlds disintegrate, and he is driven to piece together the complex truth that lies beneath. In the end, he finds himself in a desperate race to escape, together with the woman he loves most.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784654345
• ISBN13: 9781784654344
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"