With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut. Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece of work.
Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks,...

Heathern, the sequel to Ambient and Terraplane, has been praised by William Gibson as a "savage urban baroque informed by a penetrating humanity ... his best so far " Tautly written and appallingly funny, Heathern is a dystopian tale of corporate combat and media warfare in the fading years of our century.
Thatcher Dryden, former drug kingpin and now leader of the megacorporation Dryco, intends to supply a waiting world with the Messiah it so desperately seeks. But Lester Macaffrey, a schoolteacher found performing miracles among the human flotsam of the Lower East Side, proves no more...

AMBIENT ist ein Gleichnis, das den Zerfall der westlichen Zivilisation in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 21. Jahrhunderts vor Augen führt.

Der Aufstieg und der Fall eines neuen Messias in der trostlosen Welt New Yorks zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, der die dekadente Abgestumpftheit seiner Mitmenschen zu durchbrechen versucht...

Die amerikanischen Agenten Robert Luther Biggenstaff und sein Leibwächter und Nahkampfspezialist Jake sind in Moskau, um an die Erfindung eines genialen russischen Wissenschaftlers zu kommen.