Felix is an Idiot. Not a fool, but an official Idiot responsible for obstructing daily life in his town. His routine is upset when he meets a trader carrying mysterious old Scrolls. Against his will, Felix is dragged across country and then over the sea pursued by men determined to destroy the scrolls. He meets Susy and the fabled Keeper, returning with smuggled reprints of the Scrolls and challenges Bodgett, leader of the opposition. Returning to what he hopes will be normal life, he finds a local professor has been killed with his own apparatus for reversing the colours of the rainbow. The work of an academic rival? Or a cult wearing rainbow hats and venerating the Scrolls? Are their black coated opponents and their leader implicated? Will the West Pole be discovered? What is PANT? And why does Susy keep meeting Felix when he is talking to Carol? Felix’s world is remarkably unlike our own.