When an English koranic scholar appears ritualistically murdered in London and compromising video footage of a Saudi cleric begins to circulate online, the scramble is on to find the villains. Investigators feel the motive has something to do with religion and perhaps also, homosexuality. When fresh victims are found affixed to Fat-boy Penetrators, the tell-tale sex toy, the plot thickens and a global investigation is launched.

In the midst of the emerging choas, the debauched Tom O’Leary is dispatched by a murky figure to East Africa where the deaths and dildos pile-up just as anti-Islam unrest takes hold across America.

It is for the conscientious young British civil servant, Richard Preston, to liaise with the Americans and document what lies beneath the curious events at the root of an ever-widening clash of civilisations.