Firewater is a brutally funny environmental suspense novel featuring Chief Shelldrake, favourite son for the U.S. presidency and last hope for the world's survival. A perfect anti-hero for the post-apocalypse, Shelldrake is equal parts Ralph Nader (in his zealous environmental activism), Sitting Bull (in his proud tribal loyalties), Huey Long (in his fiery demagogic populism), and William Jefferson Clinton (in his unquenchable appetite for voluptuous young women).