“It’s chaos out there. Not that I’m complaining. Lotta profit in chaos.”

High above New York City, the super-rich wine and dine in sky-line restaurants dreaming of bigger and better cities. In a military bunker deep in the heart of an American wasteland, the poor compete for food and preferment in a programme with more than sinister ends. What happens when the rift between the haves and the have-nots becomes unassailable?

Matthew Bulgo's new intellectual thriller American Nightmare dissects the battle lines that exist within the eponymous ‘American Dream’.