Imagine a society ruled by women, where women are the administrators, judges, and military commanders. Would it be free of want, injustice, and violence, as feminists would have us believe, or would it be much the same as any other society? This novel describes such a world, with its rules and norms and its philosophical underpinnings, from the viewpoint of patriarchal outsiders. Two middle-aged male wannabe adventurers, one an inveterate womanizer and the other a family man, stumble upon this world via a series of accidents in this work that takes the reader from Delhi and Kiev to a remote valley in the Indian Himalayas and flits between the thirteenth century, when Mongol hordes invaded Europe and a group of women decided that they had had enough of men, and the previous decade.

The author is your typical middle-aged, stressed out, overweight man working in the rabbit warrens of middle management in the Indian corporate sector. He had earlier flunked out of doctoral education, where he wrote this novel in time that should have been put to better purpose. Pax Feminica is his first novel. He has previously written several short stories, none of which were considered suitable for publication.