Get Me Out of Here [Paperback]

`a 21st century London update of American Psycho ` --Waterstone's Books Quarterly

`this week we're devouring Henry Sutton's new comic novel'
--The Herald

'Sutton's acute rendering of a bloated city...makes this a very modern and thoroughly haunting piece of work'
--Sunday Telegraph

'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 our times' -- Daily Mirror

'totally brilliant and I haven't ever read anything quite like it' --The Sun

'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

'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' --Guardian

Sutton's black comedy is not only a timely reminder of...the credit boom, but also a gripping read'
--Daily Mail

"Very slick and very British; a tricky combo to pull off" --GQ Online

"A slice of bleakly comic urban paranoia" --The Big Issue

`amusingly pungent swipes at our credit crunch-stricken capital' -- Metro --Metro, January 2010

`sinister brilliance' -- The Bookseller --The Bookseller, February 2010

"[Sutton's hero's] a paranoid mess. And Sutton nails him perfectly in pacy thriller form"
--Daily Telegraph, February 2010

A cross between Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Martin Amis's Money. -- Daily Telegraph, review in the best of the recent financial fiction

Its ace, addictive and enthralling. -- Daily Mail, Chosen by Danny Wallace in `What Book...?'

"blisteringly angry... begins as a black comedy but gradually turns much darker"
--Sunday Telegraph

'A very funny book for seriously unfunny times, this is the first credit crunch novel, a tale where the laughs are black, bitter, and laced with blind panic.' Tony Parsons

'Henry Sutton has always had a knack for squeezing the national zeitgeist into tight little narratives.'

Geoff Dyer

It's autumn 2008 and Matt Freeman is having a very bad day. Stuck in Canary Wharf, he's overwhelmed by shoddy merchandise, hollow corporations and broken promises. Later that night, things only get worse when he drops in on his girlfriend, Bobbie, a fashion PR and reality TV show fanatic.

As his London life spirals murderously out of control, Matt is forced to seek out old flames and consider North Korean business ventures. Sneered at by sales assistants, abused by cabbies and mugged by his own dreams, he searches for a final means of escape.

Get Me Out of Here is a novel of comic anger, of success and failure, commerce and culture - and, fundamentally, belief - in a busted city.

It's autumn 2008 and Matt Freeman is having a very bad day. Stuck in Canary Wharf, he's overwhelmed by shoddy merchandise, hollow corporations and broken promises. Later that night, things only get worse when he drops in on his girlfriend, Bobbie, a fashion PR and reality TV show fanatic.

As his London life spirals murderously out of control, Matt is forced to seek out old flames and consider North Korean business ventures. Sneered at by sales assistants, abused by cabbies and mugged by his own dreams, he searches for a final means of escape.

Get Me Out of Here is a novel of comic anger, of success and failure, commerce and culture - and, fundamentally, belief - in a busted city.

Henry Sutton is the author of five previous novels, including Gorleston, Flying and Kids' Stuff, and a collection of short stories, Thong Nation. He is the books editor for the Daily Mirror, and a regular contributor to the Independent On Sunday. He also teaches creative writing at the UEA. His fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies.

He was born in Norfolk in 1963. After training as a journalist, he moved to London and worked for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including Esquire, where he was the literary editor.

He has three children and recently moved back to Norfolk with his wife, the academic Rachel Potter.

Henry Sutton was born in Norfolk in 1963. After training as a journalist he worked for a number of national newspapers and magazines. He is the author of five previous novels, including Gorleston, Flying and Kids' Stuff, and a collection of short stories, Thong Nation. He also teaches creative writing at UEA and lives in Norwich with his family.