Jack Womack – författare

It''s just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She''s a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.A normal, happy, girl.But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War is breaking out on Long Island, the army boys are flamethrowing the streets, five Presidents have been assassinated in a year. No one notices any more. Soon Lola and her family must move over to the Lower East side - Loisaida - to the Pit and the new language of violence of the streets.The metamorphosis of the nice Lola Hart into the new model Lola has begun ...

The year is 1998, and the nightmare is close at hand. The world economy has gone into a mega-crash. Most of the population has been plunged into abject poverty. Anarchy and violence stalk the streets. All power is in the hands of Dryco, headed by paranoid tycoon Thatcher Dryden, and his monstrous wife, Susie. But on the desperate streets of the Lower East Side miracles are happening. A Messiah seems to have risen from the people and is healing the sick, teaching children, raising the dead. Dryco''s New Projects Manager, Joanna, is sent to check him out. Thatcher''s got a plan for world domination, and a genuine Messiah could be the key he''s looking for. And even if he''s fake, he may have his uses. But soon, Joanna finds herself trapped in a crisis of conscience, between the relative security of a Dryco job and the dream of healing a sick world.

You need to be rich to survive at all. But it''s easier to be dead than poor.Twenty-first-century New York. It''s a nightmare. Reaganomics has gone mad. There''s murder and mutilation on the bombed-out streets and in the corporate conference rooms. Manhattan is a zoo. There''s guerrilla war on Long Island.Seamus O''Malley is a bodyguard and assassin in the outrageously powerful Dryco organisation, and he''s in deep trouble. Taking the job sounded like a good idea at the time. Falling in love with his employer''s mistress, Avalon, probably wasn''t so bright. Getting caught up in the Dryden family''s crazy rivalries didn''t help. Agreeing to murder the Old Man was plain stupid. And getting involved with the Ambients could only complicate matters further.Before long, O''Malley''s on the run, and there''s nowhere safe to hide.

Twenty-first-century Moscow. Luther and Jake have a mission - to steal the experimental transferral device from under the nose of the Dream Team.It''s a bold and dangerous plan that goes fatally wrong. The New York they return to is not the one they left: it''s a nightmare world of violence, paranoia and apartheid on the brink of a devastating war.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK... Walter Bullitt''s New York, 1968. Part-time U.S. government provocateur and full-time hepcat, Walter isn''t keen on the assignment his employers are trying to toss him - no need to mix with the Kennedys if you don''t have to. ...SO GOOD THEY MADE IT TWICE He also hopes the ghosts he''s been talking to lately are only a side-effect of the recreational drugs. Then two women from a different New York show up and tell him they aren''t. Now, Walter saw When Worlds Collide but he never thought he''d be starring in the road show, especially when one world is his and the other is invisible - at the moment.

In the unfettered freedom of Russia''s new-found venture-capital frenzy, Max Borodin can organise anything - so long as the readies are ready. That''s why he''s Moscow''s most successful businessman.But Max''s life has its downside: his wife, Tanya, nags him, his mistress, Sonya, exhausts him; his brother Evgeny needs him - to help extricate him from yet another shady business fiasco. Then there are always the country''s friendly mafia, keen to lend a helping hand with the profits of Max''s Universal Manufacturing Company - producer of documents, historical and otherwise, to suit every conceivable occasion.Satire rarely comes more sulphuric than this. Let''s Put the Future Behind Us is the wittiest job of fictional surgery on New Russia since its iron curtain was amputated.