Get Me Out of Here

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This is a crime novel that jangles with the best sort of Highsmithian bug-eyed paranoia, but it's also a savage satire on our over-inflated expectations and sense of entitlement. A dark comedy in the style of early Martin Amis, Get Me Out of Here will have you laughing and flinching at the same time -- Laura Wilson * Guardian * Henry Sutton - who writes like a dream - has pulled off what Tom Wolfe did for the greed-is-good 80s in Bonfire of the Vanities. He has written - with black, comic brilliance - about out times -- Tony Parsons * Daily Mirror * With Matt Freeman, Sutton has really captured the Zeitgeist ... Is he a killer or just a frustrated loser? Following the clues is fascinating in itself. When I finished this book, I wanted to read it again, and did * Financial Times * Henry Sutton has always had a knack for squeezing the national zeitgeist into tight little narratives -- Geoff Dyer Totally brilliant and I haven't ever read anything quite like it * The Sun * Sutton's acute rendering of a bloated city in financial and moral freefall, and the ease with which the hatred and violence can overrun its streets, make this a very modern and thoroughly haunting piece of work * Sunday Telegraph * [Sutton's hero's] a paranoid mess. A lying loser. A stony broke snob. And Sutton nails him perfectly in pacy thriller form -- Helen Brown * Daily Telegraph * A 21st century London update of American Psycho * WBQ * Very slick and very British; a tricky combo to pull off * GQ online * A slice of bleakly comic urban paranoia * Big Issue *