A Desert of Salt Author:K.R. Butler Somewhere in Africa's Kalahari Desert was the crude grave of Lucia Patterson, forgotten for thirty years by all save two men-one, the half-insane, one-armed recluse who had been her husband, the other a distinguished judge. Thomas Patterson's tragic story might have died with him if Steve Manning had not found his diary... — It is the diary that ... more »precipitates the "disappearance" of five men and impetuous, red-haired Maggie Roarke into the desert the Pattersons had once fled across-a wilderness of grasslands, scrub, and the eerie vastness of Makarikari Salt Plains. Manning was conditioned to his arid homeland but not to the turmoil of emotions unleashed by his strange discovery.« less