In this bold and cheeky meditation on religion, middle-aged muscleman, uncertain Catholic and wanna-be academic Sterling de Bortoli is a self-described 'Octaroon': a one-eighth Aboriginal Australian. Neither black nor white, our part-blood Indigenous Australian hero struggles with concepts of identity, moving between the two worlds of skin pigment but never really belonging to either.
Thus de Bortoli pursues a frustrated, anarchic, homeless existence in Canberra and Melbourne, until, through the influence of the Anti-Christ, his gorgeous Dark Lord Maria, he travels to Islamic Morocco.
It is a land completely foreign to Garrawi, his Dreamtime totem, and foreign to the Crucifix of Roman Catholicism. It is where de Bortoli learns to be a fully-blooded vampire - a monster who never says sorry.
This novel also contains more than 30 self-penned illustrations by the author.