[1][3] The title is a reference to the Internet meme Rule 34, which states that "If it exists, there is porn of it.

Inspector Kavanaugh of the Edinburgh police investigates spammers murdered in gruesome and inventive ways, and learns about similar cases in other parts of Europe.

Anwar, a former identity thief who becomes Scottish honorary consul for a fictional state in central Asia, and "The Toymaker", an enforcer and organizer for the criminal "Operation".

Reviews have been favorable, with Cory Doctorow calling the novel, "savvy, funny, viciously inventive".

Trouble is, about the only parts that haven't happened yet are Scottish Independence and the use of actual quantum computers for cracking public key encryption (and there's a big fat question mark over the latter—what else are the NSA up to?).