Mark Martin, a young Australian Nuclear Physicist falls in love with Naida, a beautiful but innocent and protected Muslim girl. Naida's father strongly objects to the relationship. But the pair is deeply in love, and Mark is told that the only way he and Naida will ever be able to be together is for Mark to convert to Islam. It isn't a decision Mark takes lightly, but the local Imam takes him through the Islamic philosophy to convince him that Islam is what he needs to be with Naida.
Their plan to live together is shattered when two thugs murder Naida because she is a Muslim. Mark is consumed by paralysing revenge. He finds the two thugs and murders them. With nothing to live for, Mark agrees to be sent to Afghanistan by the Imam to join a warlord called Sharif Nawaz, whose hidden village is high in the Hindu Kush mountains. Sharif admires Mark, whose Muslim name is now, Ishaq bin Martin, for his contribution to the strategy and tactics of the Mujahedeen.
Under Sharif's guidance, Ishaq becomes a strong, loyal Mujahedeen and a respected member of the group. At a secret meeting with Osama bin Laden, and all the Afghan warlords, Sharif finds himself shockingly excluded from bin Laden's inner circle of trust! Affronted and disrespected and, in a blind rage, he plots revenge. Ishaq recognises that Sharif's retribution must be extreme, to make Sharif the undoubted leader of all the Mujahideen and cause the world to recognise Islam as the only religion.
Ishaq constructs a plan, that Sharif regards as bizarre, to blow up the British House of Lords - with a nuclear bomb. Ishaq chooses the remote village of Aragunuu on the south coast of New South Wales as the best location to construct the nuclear device.
Sir James Halliday, the United Nations British Security Council Representative, becomes involved, as anything nuclear is within his responsibilities, and something he should be involved with. He realises that he needs the help of Charles Edmonds to find Ishaq and the device, and foil the plot with the support of the London Metropolitan Police.
This remarkable story takes the reader through the agony of forbidden love, a clash of cultures, an epic journey, the covert construction of a nuclear device, and the development of a plot that will be disastrous for the world.
