Thanks to Jocelyn Kelley of Kelley & Hall Book Publicity, I am giving away 5 copies of The Water Thief.


Book Description:

Charles Thatcher is a perception manager for Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation, which owns him as private property. Aside from that, he is facing a growing list of problems. The cost of air is going up, his wife wants to sell herself to another corporation, and his colleagues are always trying to get him tossed into the lye vats.

But when Charles discovers a woman stealing rainwater, he sees an opportunity to move up in the world, maybe even to become an executive. He not only turns her in but creates an exaggerated report, spinning the woman as a seditionist and revolutionary. When she vanishes, he is overcome with guilt and decides to track her down. He eventually meets up with Kate, a friend of the woman he turned in, and realizes that his report may have been correct and faces the reality of stumbling on a larger, subversive organization.


About Nicholas Lamar Soutter:


Nicholas Lamar Soutter was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Clark University with Bachelors’ Degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, and began publishing award winning essays on politics and the social sciences. He was represented by the Donald Maass Literary agency for 5 years, and currently teaches a weekly workshop called “The Business and Craft of writing”, helping writers to hone their skills, improve their work, and get an agent. His latest book, The Water Thief, is a near future dystopian novel about a man trying to find his place in a world conquered by corporations, and was awarded The Kirkus Star in May of 2012. Nicholas lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

More about The Water Thief:

Soutter’s inspiration came when he read the philosophical novel “Atlas Shrugged” and was left with an incomplete feeling.

“I thought the book was excellent and was filled with many well-made points, all of which were dead-wrong ,” said Soutter. “I wanted to show why. In the wake of the infamous ‘Citizens United’ decision, with politicians unable to get elected without bowing to special interests, this book speaks to the current path this country finds itself on.”

Soutter’s politically and economically charged book targets readers who enjoy thinking about the content of their latest read as well as considering what the future may hold for Americans.

“The Water Thief” was awarded “The Kirkus Star” by Kirkus Reviews as a book of remarkable merit. Kirkus Reviews calls it “profound… sure to spark a reaction” and “scathing, ceaselessly engaging.” Foreward Clarion Reviews says, “The Water Thief” is “a brilliant rebuttal of Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’.”


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