Going, Going, Gone

Publishers Weekly calls Womack a "futurist wunderkind...fast-moving, hipper-than-hip." In his latest novel it's 1968. Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work-- until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their 1st song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York--both his theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America.