Part bizarre quest, part unique travelogue, part insane fiction, The Techno-Pagan Octopus Messiah is an extraordinary tale of prophetic dreams and adventurous treks through Egypt, Rajastan and northern India.

Loosely based around his own experiences, Ian Winn disguises himself as a tourist and, catalysed by drugs from the Amazonian rain forest, takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic trip to places where crystals are dragon eggs, free love is expensive and tourist massacres mean discount hotels. Along the way lies, amongst other things, a tantric commune, an illegal hike up the Pyramid of Chepren and cryptic encounters with Indian snake saddhus. Is he really the Techno-Pagan Octopus Messiah or is he getting a Messiah complex?