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 the most devastating plague.
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...
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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.