This is a novel about a Hollywood mega film producer who makes a film that has the largest first night gross in film making history but in the process loses his creative soul. His analyst tells him that to get back his soul he must go back to his early film writing days and find a young writer and write and produce a good sound film a near work of art. They make Religions - The Movie but leave out al Qaeda. Al Zawahiri leader of al Qaeda has him, writer, and wife arrested and will kill them until the producer agrees to come to Pakastan and an make the movie about the full doctrine of al Qaeda. He and his analyst conspire to go back into Zawahiri's youth, isolate the vision that turned him into a terrorist, and turn the dark side of jihad into non violent activities pitting jihad against Dostoyevski's dictat "aesthetic beauty can save the world." Which they do and Zawahiri refutes jihad and shuts down al Qaeda.