sentences:  The work has been described as a part of a trend towards more speculative fiction focus on Islam after the September 11 attacks and as driving "some readers to apoplexy".Mark Steyn discussed the novel's political aspects at length and also described it as "a brisk page-turner full of startling twists and bad sex".In the series begun with "A Desert Called Peace" (2007), the hero battles a worldwide Caliphate.