Gaurav Garg Author

  The world didn't end with a bang. It ended with a dry rattle. In the Rust Sprawl, water is the only currency that matters. Jax is a Driver and a Water-Witch, a man with the rare instinct to find moisture in the dust. He survives by two rules: trust the machine, and never look back. But when a routine scavenging run turns into a shootout with Aqua-Corp death squads, Jax finds himself saddled with the most dangerous cargo in the wasteland: Kora. She is a living hard drive, a synesthete with a map to the "White Spire" burned into her neural pathways—a legendary reservoir containing four quadrillion gallons of pure, pre-collapse water. To get her there, Jax must push his beloved, cobbled-together war-rig, The Iron Lung, to the breaking point. He assembles a crew of the broken and the desperate: Rook, a gentle giant of a mechanic whose lungs are turning to stone, and Vasha, a blind sniper who sees the world through sound. Together, they must cross the Salt Wastes, a blinding...