"Aisha" by Denis W. Schulz is a detective story like no other. Set in London, it chronicles the adventures of Bernard Piffy, a private detective hired by the regulars at Joe’s Bar and Grille and Gun Club in Dallas. His mission is to locate Yaser Abdel Said, a suspect in the killing of his own daughters in a fit of Islamic rage. Piffy is a veteran of the elite Marine Corps. He went to Dallas and met Ka'b bin al-Ashraf who promised him that he could take him to the soul of Yaser Abdel Said. Ka'b has been dead for 1,400 years, and he sends Piffy to Asma bint Marwan, described as a poet and the Shakespeare of the 7th Century, who can transform herself into a cute little girl, a hag and a sexy bomb shell, among others. The story brings us to Birmingham Central Mosque in England, to Abu Hamza al-Masri and to Archbishop Rowan Williams. Turning hilarious and mystical, the adventures of Piffy continues when he meets Inspector Jean-Jacques Rousseau, assorted jinns, jihadists, monsters and leprechauns. Finally, he gets to meet Aisha, a ten-year-old Muslim girl who is supposedly the sweetest little girl who ever lived in this world. But Piffy's adventure is just getting started.

"Aisha, The Search For Yasel Abdul Said" is a parody that mocks not only the Islamic extremists but our society as a whole. Denis W. Schulz demonstrates talent for sarcasm, irony and imagination in his writing. The plot, however, can be a bit confusing. From the seemingly simple job of finding Yael Abdel Said, Bernard Piffy goes into a series of adventures that takes him everywhere.

However, I was definitely entertained by this book. The cast of characters are so colorful and interesting and I presume that they are also meant to be sarcastic commentaries of the personalities that make up our society in the past as well as today. Sometimes redundant, the story still managed to entertain and amuse me. As parodies go, this is certainly a book that has to be read twice in order to get to the bottom of things.