Dying Of Thirst

<p>In a world of 100 rivers the cure isn't more water. It's the drop.</p><p>A young man is drowning. Not in water but in the overwhelming abundance of a world that offers everything and delivers nothing. The River of Applause the River of Distraction the River of Comfort-each promises fulfillment but every sip only leaves him thirstier. Haunted by a seductive inner voice he calls The Phantom he is a ghost in his own life a slave to the weaknesses he can no longer fight.</p><p>In a final desperate act of rebellion against the man in the mirror he makes a choice that is both an escape and a death sentence. He trades the velvet prison of his life for a crucible of fire and steel: the brutal unforgiving world of military training. Here stripped of his name his hair and his past he is forced to confront the true nature of his enemy.</p><p>But this is not a war against a foreign power. It is a psychological duel where the sergeants are blacksmiths for the soul and pain is a sculptor's chisel. He is taught that the path to strength is not addition but subtraction. He learns the brutal beautiful mathematics of the 15%-the essential core of a life worth living.</p><p>Dying of Thirst is a profound and visceral journey into the heart of the modern condition. It is a philosophical novel that reads like an action story a manual for the war that wages within us all. In an age of endless noise it asks the ultimate question: The world tells you that you are drowning. But what if you are only dying of thirst?</p>