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Kany or Alpha-M is posited as an exotic element left over from moments after the Big Bang created the universe we live in. Western science is largely ignorant of it, save for an eccentric professor at the University of Kentucky, a very enigmatic Russian named Nadov Kiriyan who heads a large and powerful mining corporation in the Lake Baikal region, and an obscure African chieftains residing in the rural hills of an African country named Mezi. When Kano Wasiri, a onetime student of the U. of K. professor and native of Mezi, enters the train of events involving Alpha-M the plots starts rolling. It seems that Kiriyan is a hugely effective puppet master with unlimited funds and political influence that helps propel Kano Wasiri directly into the political scene of Mezi, where a nascent revolution against corruption and suppression is brewing. Unworldly, perhaps even alien powers are interested in Wasiri's success in reforming the nation of Mezi, primarily so they can gain unlimited access to Alpha-M.
The theme of this massive historical-science-fiction-political thriller is set squarely on the possible role of exotic elements in replacing coal and oil as sources of unlimited energy. A secondary plotline is the role of African countries in this transition to exotic elements and the much-needed political reform that must take place there for this transition to take place. The plot is intricate with multiple players on their own agendas. Character portraits are lifelike, such types as African generals intent on suppressing reform and the rebelling students opposing them, forming a familiar trope from today's headlines. Word usage is at times unusual, for example "a body to kill" where "killer body" could be inferred as intended, but the terms are generally acceptable. Power in all of its facets—sexual, economic, political, even interplanetary—is the writers true "lingua franca." He uses it with courage and love for Africa.