Murray Whelan thinks the life of a political advisor is complicated enough: there are intimations of intrigue among the party powerful and his ex-wife is mounting a custody battle over his beloved son. But throw in a Turk snap-frozen in a local meat plant, drugs planted under the bed, fascist funeral rites, a killer car, and blood-sucking parasites, and things are suddenly spinning fatally out of control. That's when red-hot Ayisha knocks on the door.