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Deviant Behavior, A Novel

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NOW AVAILABLE.

Gritty and eye-opening, playful and shocking, Deviant Behavior is the remarkable first novel from acclaimed magazine journalist Mike Sager.

Deviant Behavior, A Novel

Jonathan Seede is the picture of Washington, D.C. respectability, an urban pioneer with a pretty wife, a new baby, and a job at the town’s most esteemed newspaper. But ten blocks from the White House, on the notorious Fourteenth Street Strip, a war is raging over deviant behavior. And Seede is on the front lines, deep into a secret freelance project that’s taking him to a place where most people would never dare to go.

As he descends into an inferno of repressed urges and human frailties, Seede’s journey plays out against a brilliantly realized portrait of the nation’s capital, featuring pimps and hustlers, an accidental hooker, an honest cop, a storefront prophet/marijuana dealer, 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. A mad, vivid, and daring romp through a society in crisis, Deviant Behavior is the story of what happens when one frustrated father decides to Just Say Yes.

Mike SagerMike Sager is a bestselling author and award-winning reporter. He’s been called “the Beat poet of American journalism.” For more than forty years he has worked as a writer for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, GQ and Esquire.

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  • Hear Mike Sager interviewed about the death of the Godfather of The New Journalism, Tom Wolfe.
    2018-05-28
  • NOW AVAILABLE: The Second Edition of the LA Times Bestselling REVENGE OF THE DONUT BOYS, by MIKE SAGER.
    2018-04-24
  • Mike Sager talks Creation, Suspending Disbelief, and Preaching Beyond the Choir on the CREATIVE NONFICTION PODCAST with Brendan O'Meara.
    2018-04-24
  • Now Available: The Lonely Hedonist: True Stories of Sex, Drugs, Dinosaurs and Peter Dinklage.
    2017-08-29
  • Now Available from Byliner/Vook: STONED AGAIN: THE HIGH TIMES AND STRANGE LIFE OF A DRUGS CORRESPONDENT
    2015-05-04
  • Now available on Amazon in paper and eBook: 25th Anniversary Author’s cut of “THE DEVIL AND JOHN HOLMES”
    2014-12-15
  • HIGH TOLERANCE now available in paperback on Amazon and in eBook wherever they are sold.
    2013-05-16
  • Paperback Editions of NEXT WAVE and THE SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT now available
    2012-12-18
  • Now Available: First Fall List from The Sager Group
    2012-10-16
  • Coming Soon from The Sager Group
    2012-08-01

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  • Tattoos & Tequila: The Vince Neil Story
  • Wounded Warriors
  • Deviant Behavior, A Novel
  • Revenge of the Donut Boys
  • Scary Monsters and Super Freaks
  • Next Wave: America’s New Generation Great Literary Journalists
  • The Someone You’re Not
  • High Tolerance, A Novel
  • The Devil and John Holmes
  • Stoned Again
  • The Lonely Hedonist

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