Jon Foyt: 16 books

The Sculpture of Time—Synopsis Lois Foyt and Jon Foyt A present-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winters Tale Our ninth novel is a 21st century adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winters Tale set in present-day Northern California, specifically in the exclusive Bohemian Club in San Francisco...

Why would an immigrant lad from off the docks of Liverpool, one Robert Morris, pay for critical portions of the American Revolution out of his own pocket, while helping found the first ever bank in the Colonies, and then end up in debtor’s prison? Just ask his Bavarian talk therapist, a surgeon...

In the year 2084, Native American artist Joseph Rhodes portrays a man with vision, drive and humility. Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Reilly likes what she sees. Cyberspace evangelist Reverend Reginald Reichard offers an unsettling apparition. Bring on the popcorn!

From Delphi, Greece, to Colorado, to Roseburg, Oregon, to the terrors of Homeowners Associations, and the Post-World War II American shortage of lumber to build the houses for returning veterans, these short stories offer random readings on random subjects, to be read randomly.

This short story will give you the talking points, so that on your next museum visit you can pose perceptive questions to the Curator about provenance and authenticity of the artworks. Lee Roberts will also instruct how to deal with the FBI.

Come run with these ancient, present-day and prophetic characters in an emotionally gripping race with nuclear proportions. Albion E. Shepard, an old sea captain, will oversee the tides of time for your mental critique.

Come to Trinidad, Colorado to witness the triptych of Natural Law, Religion and Eternal Love as a Zuni Pueblo artist vies with a cyberspace evangelist for one woman’s womb. Whose 2018 manifesto decreed the Indian War of Words? Who masterminded the Indian Casino Massacre of 2048? Who will take command in 2084?

Feels like you’re landing on a Normandy beach in ’44 with heroine WAC Captain Betty Tillerman, US Army. Advance with her and her father, a WW I legatee, through the civilian Eisenhower military-industrial complex of the ‘50s to witness her consumer disposition that manifests into her business...

A middle-aged journalist, bereft of love, while contemplating his own retirement, investigates the suicide of a prominent member of a large active adult retirement community. Willy Herbst uncovers the dark forces playing upon the victim while exposing the skulduggery of the cabal of volunteers running...

Worthington Rhodes, the powerful man behind the 21st century trans-continental bullet train, competes with equally-strong and charismatic woman archaeologist, Anna Ardmore, who strives to save her Southwest prehistoric Anasazi Pueblo ruins that lie in the train’s wide right-of-way

Thirty-something Toledo Squires, having made all that money, wants to do a “Bill Gates” for a little Mediterranean country emerging from the yoke of communism in 1991. Octogenarian Grace Templeton, dreaming of a royal adventure, wants to play a mean ”Mimi Rogers” Texas hold ’em in her Santa Fe retirement home. Altruism wins the day in a surprising dénouement.

Are Caribbean offshore trusts hiding U.S. wealth? Was billionaire Trevor Thomson killed in a mysterious fall from a Swiss train, did he jump, did he suffer a heart attack…or was he pushed? The answer is critical for Trevor’s stepson, Sam, a history professor in New Mexico and high-powered, beautiful...

In Marcel Proust in Taos, a Los Alamos physicist, Christopher, retires to Taos, New Mexico, with his cat Marcel Proust, to write a novel about nuclear terrorism. There he meets aspiring artist Marlene, from Germany, and the two fall in love. They open a microbrewery, using the brewing recipes passed...

You’ll cheer Millennials Josh Foreman and Maggie Sullivan as they put their heads together with African-American Ollie Davis—a protégé of the Civil Rights Movement—to remedy a modern malfeasance by staging a cooked poker game with the wrongdoer, who was bent on tarnishing the reputation of...