Five Books of (Robert) Moses

About this book

Follows an FBI agent and a controversial urban planner through an alternate New York City that suffered a terrorist attack in the 1970s, as well as the lawless "Rescue City" where refugee New Yorkers were settled. Main characters include a fictionalized Robert Moses, the powerful public official who reshaped New York City and its environs, and his brother Paul, an electrical engineer. A difficult relationship between the two has dire consequences, with fictional accounts of Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, J. Edgar Hoover, and Jane Jacobs, the urbanist and activist, and others. Nersesian's series of novels offering an alternate history of New York.