Sugar Street

''Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist''s] initial flight wearing off , his life shrinking down to a couple of city blocks . It''s brilliantly done'' Guardian

''A deft punch of a novel from Jonathan Dee . . . [he] creates a true page-turner out of simple materials and the result is a troubling and stimulating look at real American life - at the fix that materialism plus the information state has got us into. It''s also very funny'' George Sanders

In Jonathan Dee''s elegant and explosive new novel, Sugar Street, an unnamed male narrator has hit the road with a large sum of cash stashed in an envelope under his car seat. Vigilantly avoiding security cameras, he drives until he meets a city where his past is unlikely to track him down. Renting a room from a less-than-stable landlady whose need for money outweighs her desire to ask questions, he seems to ha