Grey Matter

by James Lever

The thrilling climax to the Serpentine Labyrinth trilogy. Kleo Beth, an adept in arcane majjik who has journeyed to the farthest reaches of the galaxy in search of a person with the necessary expertise and skills to defeat the biological menace that has been unleashed upon her people of the Five Kingdoms and neighbouring Her immediate family and neighbours that are blessed with the possession of the genome of arcane majjik woven into their DNA. As yet a primitive society, that has so far endured against the off-worlders who have established a bridgehead on the continent across the Shallow Sea and plan to colonize Invaders from Earth who, with all the advantages of a high-tech society, seek to suborn the indigenous population by whatever means are invasion; regime-change; and even germ The genomics expert recruited by his wife-to-be from modern-day earth and catapulted into the midst of a mind-blowing crisis where vaccines do not exist and antibiotics are the only weapon in the arsenal of the medical profession. Where a man-made germ, for which there is no known antidote, has been unleashed upon the population at large.The Who, in parallel, orchestrate the champions of majjik to avert the calamity about to engulf Kleo Beth’s people. A calamity with origins going back to the beginning of time, when history was recorded using wedge-shaped styli on tablets of wet The Magi, long departed from the world, who created a one-way portal such that evil could be banished, never to return. But even the majjik of the Magi has a sell-by-date. How can that which decays a little bit more with every passing day be restored? Or, if that is not possible, how can it be safely destroyed?

299 pages, Paperback

Published September 16, 2020