What Lot's Wife Saw

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Phileas Book is about to face the biggest challenge of his life. As the greatest crossword compiler of his age, his skills are to be put to the test as never before. And in the far-off Colony, on the shores of the Dead Sea, life is about to change forever. It’s been twenty years since the earth opened up to reveal the strange violet salt to which the world is now addicted, and the Colonists have toiled day and night to guarantee supply to a voracious market. As outcasts and fugitives, they’re grateful for refuge from a Europe that has been half swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea, but when the governor of the Colony dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, they begin to blame each other, sparking a chain of events which threatens their very existence. But who has killed Governor Bera? And why? This is the new Sodom and Gomorrah and only Phileas Book can uncover the Colony’s hidden secrets. And on a night quite different from any other, Phileas is called to solve the most important riddle ever conceived – a puzzle which could alter the course of human history.