Former BBC journalist Anne Dixey went to Washington DC with her partner. She'd taken a career break and it should have been a dream move. But she arrived the day before 9/11. Suddenly she and her two children were plunged into a nightmare world of anthrax attacks, bomb alerts and George Bush's catastrophic War on Terror. Dixey travelled across the States and found a country of huge contrasts - expensive kindergartens and High School massacres, apple pie moms and serial killers, 24-hour porn and bible-bashing preachers. An un-putdownable and very timely read.