London, England, The United States, September 2002.

One year after the 9/11 attacks and England, unlike the rest of the US, is not at peace with itself. Choked by the iron grip of the War Against Terror, freedom and democracy have died. The once-proud English are secondclass citizens in their mean and unpleasant land.

At twenty-three, Jessica has a great job, a fantastic apartment, friends and family who love her. But her life is not some Emerican Dream. It harbours nightmares of an untold hurt, and she will not rest until she has nailed the lies of the past.

A taut, fierce and darkly humorous thriller, American Rules imagines an alternate, dystopian reality whose frailties and obsessions unnervingly mirror our own.