Author’s note
The idea for The Messiah Complex emerged from a serious look at faith-based terrorism, which we, in the West, tend to associate uniquely with Islamists. The fact is that some fundamentalist Christian sects are just as militant, just as ruthless, and present just as great a threat to society. Allow me to demonstrate.

In a small English town, a group of Muslim refugees suddenly go on the rampage. The attack bears similar hallmarks to two incidents in the US days earlier.

Dr Patrick Cameron, a medical researcher, is asked to investigate. He spots something odd in the rioters’ brain scans but, hours later, it’s disappeared. Were these people programmed to turn violent?

As a wave of similar attacks spreads to other countries, large crowds, fearing that extremist Islam has now declared all-out war on Christianity, pour onto the streets, calling on their dithering governments to retaliate.
Cameron’s enquiries reveal something quite different – fundamentalists who believe they have been called by Christ to launch a holy war against Islam. Cameron and his wife, a practising Christian herself, are sent in to destroy the plot before it can reach its horrifying climax.

Whatever that may be.