Driven by a desire for vengeance on factual TV commissioners, a documentarian fallen on hard times embarks on a journey taking in the pass of Thermopylae, the history of Medieval France, and the war in Syria, in a social satire that will amuse fans of Will Self and Martin Amis Wildly entertaining and darkly funny, How to Rule the World is set in the world of factual TV making, in which Baxter Stone is driven by desperation and a lust for revenge on the self-appointed kings of taste and commissioning.