Jack Womack Books in Order

In a violent future New York ruled by the corporation Dryco, bodyguard Seamus O’Malley serves its powerful chief while desiring his companion. Corporate schemes and murderous family rivalries transform his private longing into a struggle to stay alive.

A covert mission to abduct a Soviet scientist sends Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man into an altered 1939 New York. Stranded in a world with a different political history, they seek an improbable route back to their own time.

Corporate leader Thatcher Dryden hopes to market salvation through a schoolteacher reputed to perform miracles. But the would-be messiah resists control, and an unexpected transformation within Dryden’s circle threatens the corporation’s carefully managed plans for belief.

A troubled couple travels from 2033 to an alternate 1954 to abduct Elvis Presley for the corporation Dryco. Installing him as a future religious figure seems commercially irresistible, but their intended messiah proves far less compliant than expected.

Twelve-year-old Lola Hart records her family’s decline as job losses force them from their comfortable Manhattan life. Her diary follows their struggle to adapt while riots, disease and gang violence erode the city and reshape her identity.

Former Soviet bureaucrat Max Borodin reinvents himself as a businessman in post-Communist Moscow. A hazardous deal brings him into contact with gangsters and opportunists, while his wife, mistress and troublesome brother add complications he cannot easily control.

In an alternate 1968, government freelancer Walter Bullitt tests drugs on himself and unsuspecting citizens. An assignment involving Robert Kennedy gives him pause, then two mysterious women draw him into a mission to save more than one New York.

Drawing on his collection of flying-saucer books, Jack Womack traces the culture that grew around UFO sightings. Images, publications and commentary reveal how extraordinary claims, anxieties and imaginative storytelling shaped a persistent twentieth-century fascination with visitors from elsewhere.