Book description
John Roe O'Neill, molecular biologist, American of Irish descent, saw
the car bomb explosion that killed instantly his wife Mary and their
twin five-year-olds, Kevin and Mairead. Physically almost unharmed, a
shock wave of blinding, all-engulfing hatred and revulsion seared
through his mind. Revulsion not just for the bombers but for a world
that could produce such horror. And he sought revenge on that world,
creating and unleashing a plague. Then, as his plague swept the world,
bringing not just death but the mad anarchy of terror, he went on a
journey where he was forced to see the awfulness of his own handiwork.
Frank Hebert (1920-1986) Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington in
1920 and worked as a reporter, and later editor, of a number of West
Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first Science
Fiction story was published in 1952 but he achieved fame more than ten
years later with the publication in Analog of Dune World and The Prophet
of Dune, which were amalgamated into the novel Dune in 1965. Winner of
both the Nebula and the Hugo awards, it is the best selling SF novel of
all time.
