The Dark Design: The Third Book of the Riverworld Series: 2 (Riverworld 2)

Milton Firebrass once Mark Twains enemy and now his greatest ally plans to build a giant airship that can fly to the North Pole of Riverworld. Once there he hopes to learn the secret of the mysterious tower that dominates the landscape and find the answer to his most urgent question: could the tower contain the Ethicals the enigmatic beings that created Riverworld? . Meanwhile Jill Gulbirra is challenged for the job of piloting the airship by none other than Cyrano de Bergerac. As if there were not enough challenges facing the crew they soon suspect there is an agent of the Ethicals among their number plotting their destruction….