Elvissey

Womack was recommended to me as being a good writer, and this is the first book of his I've attempted, so I can only imagine that it must not be one of his better books. An alternate-universe, alternate-history, cyberpunk-themed book in which the protagonists often talk in a dreary newspeak and in which, despite reaching near the top in a corporate hell, they are too stupid to realize that they are being taken advantage of in ways that the reader notices immediately. I can see that Womack has talent, but this book, despite occasional moments in which he shows what he can do, is a failure.

A complete and total mindfuck, but not just for the plot, which involves two time-travelers from a future based around Elvis Presley going back in an attempt to abduct the young King and bring him back as a Messiah. Language in the future has evolved and mutated to an almost alien level, making the vocabulary of the two would-be kidnappers as much a challenge for the reader to decipher as the Scottish patois in Trainspotting was.