It was published by New Futurist Books, whose directors were Muinzer and her twin brother, Colum[1] (also spelt Colm).

[2] The novel told from the point of view of a waitress from Belfast who calls herself "Poisoner" or "Mad Dog Me", is about a group of illegal Middle Eastern workers calling themselves the "Night Shift", "the Sons of Sheikh Zubair," and "the Sons of Umm Muhammad", at a kebab shop, the Cholman Deli in Leicester Square, who commit acts of terrorism because they desire and have been unable to get British citizenship.

Poisoner steals a rock of plutonium called the Stone of Scone and hides it in an intimate part of her body.

The book is written in thick Irish dialect and slang, with long compound-complex sentences and lengthy observations and metaphors by its narrator, who can rarely get in a word with the others, and when she does, she rarely displays the intelligence she shows in the narration, speaking in short, inutile blips in even thicker slang.

A reviewer for New Scientist said that "There’s a real comic gift at work here, as well as a heady delight in the possibilities of language.