“The Virtue of Heresy – Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer” charts the author’s 30-year struggle to distil the essence of truth linking the major theories of science, and which he finds come up wanting. It’s written in a conversational narrative style for the well-informed lay reader, employing a fictional protagonist – an interstellar taxi driver - named Haquar. Under scrutiny are Big Bang Theory, evolution, Electric Universe, the Solar Model, Einstein’s Relativity, mathematical modelling, Quantum Mechanics, particle physics, and String Theory.