Deviant Behavior
A Novel of Sex, Drugs, Fatherhood, and Crystal Skulls
Published on 24. April 2019
304 pages
978-1-55584-827-9 (ISBN)
Description
"[A] dark D.C. tale with... an addictive neo-noir sensibility" by the award-winning journalist and
New York Times-bestselling author of
Tattoos & Tequila (
Publishers Weekly).
With a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job reporting for the Washington Herald, Jonathan Seede is the picture of urban respectability. But a secret freelance project is drawing him into places most people never dare to go. Just ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street strip, a war is raging over drugs, prostitution, and other deviant behaviors-and Seede is on the front lines.
When his family abruptly leaves him, Seede embarks on a journey into his own dark urges. Along the way, he encounters pimps and hustlers, an accidental hooker, an honest cop, a storefront prophet who deals marijuana, a beautiful teenage runaway, a crack-addicted music legend, an A-list gay activist, and a diminutive billionaire who is searching for the answers to life's greatest questions in a crystal skull.
"Mike Sager's keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavioris a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city." -George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener
With a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job reporting for the Washington Herald, Jonathan Seede is the picture of urban respectability. But a secret freelance project is drawing him into places most people never dare to go. Just ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street strip, a war is raging over drugs, prostitution, and other deviant behaviors-and Seede is on the front lines.
When his family abruptly leaves him, Seede embarks on a journey into his own dark urges. Along the way, he encounters pimps and hustlers, an accidental hooker, an honest cop, a storefront prophet who deals marijuana, a beautiful teenage runaway, a crack-addicted music legend, an A-list gay activist, and a diminutive billionaire who is searching for the answers to life's greatest questions in a crystal skull.
"Mike Sager's keen, journalistic eye and unique voice transfer to fiction with highly entertaining results. Deviant Behavioris a street-level, symphonic portrait of an American city." -George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener
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Person
Mike Sager is the author of two collections of magazine journalism,
Scary Monsters and Super Freaks, and
Revenge of the Donut Boys. A former
Washington Post reporter and
Rolling Stone editor, he is currently a writer-at large for
Esquire, where he has been published for more than ten years.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Part One
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- Part Two
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- Part Three
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- 32
- 33
- 34
- 35
- 36
- 37
- 38
- 39
- 40
- Part Four
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- 45
- 46
- 47
- 48
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
