Ambient: Issue #6

Going, Going, Gone

Plot

Publishers Weekly has called Jack Womack a ‘futurist wunderkind…fast-moving, hipper-than-hip’. In his latest novel it's 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and 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 and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York—both his and theirs. Called ‘infernally clever’ by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America.