This book stems from the television series What in the World? which has been broadcast on Irish TV over the past decade.

Set in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, the book features seldom-heard human stories - stories of intense pain and suffering, of small triumphs and occasional advances, of betrayal and complicity, of utter resilience and stout defiance.

In What in the World? Peadar King provides an up close and compelling look at the human cost of flawed ideologies and distorted priorities.