Flint Rock grew up in Texas where everything was big. For example, thirst. You haven't been thirsty till it is 116 degrees in the shade and the mouthful of water in your canteen is boiling hot and your car won't start and it is miles to the nearest town. He had that experience and a few others like it, and he didn't want any part of being really thirsty again. Then he got a text message from a friend in Samoa, a country in the South Pacific that is distant from everywhere. There he learned more about the meaning of satisfying thirst. Flint is a retired airline pilot who stumbled on a plot to use abandoned oil wells in Texas as a place to store nuclear waste. He set out to help a town defeat a corporation that has leased access to dry wells. Now two people are dead and another is missing. Flint helps the Texas Rangers to uncover a scheme that is international in scope and sinister in aim. In the process he is captured and held without water unless he agrees to betray the town. He has help from a friend who, at much risk to herself, blocks the corporation's move to profit by Flint's and others' misery. Along the way Flint rediscovers the meaning of love and the nature of life.