But the disjointed plot (dozens of scene-shifts) and the many baldly didactic passages here are major distractions the scientific content is mumbo-jumbo-ish and overall this is minor Herbert-though sure to attract a major audience. as the search for a cure proceeds, crisply if obviously-with Herbert's usual array of solid, intelligent characters. And, meanwhile, polymath researcher Fintan Doheny is tracking down mad-scientist O'Neill (who has a new identity).
In Ireland, Libya, and England, the plague is horrifyingly successful-but it spreads: governments collapse and civil wars explode as military barriers, fire, and radioactive dusts are used to destroy the infected areas. The White Plague Hardcover by Frank Herbert (Author) 239 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover from 27.95 1 Collectible from 27.95 Paperback 25.78 23 Used from 1.99 17 New from 21.83 Mass Market Paperback 29.99 61 Used from 1.54 4 New from 29. The result: a sickness, benign in men, swiftly and invariably fatal in women. Irish-American molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill, a helpless witness to the murder of his wife and children in an IRA car bombing in Dublin, is shocked into a mode of insane genius he returns to the US and disappears into a secret laboratory thirsting for revenge, where he constructs an artificial gene-specific virus.
Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague.Herbert has done some of his finest work in present-day settings-The Santaroga Barrier, Soul Catcher-but this ponderous thriller is only intermittently absorbing. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. What if women were an endangered species? It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. You can read this before The White Plague PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The White Plague written by Frank Herbert which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The White Plague by Frank Herbert
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