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The White Plague
The White Plague
Author: Frank Herbert
The White Plague opens with the death of the wife and children of brilliant biochemical researcher John O'Neill at the hands of terrorists. O'Neil is driven mad with grief and unleashes a biochemically engineered plague on the world, one that is 100% fatal to women. With most women dying off, the planet soon becomes unrecognizable. Will a cure b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425065556
ISBN-10: 0425065553
Publication Date: 12/1/1983
Pages: 501
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3.7 stars, based on 37 ratings
Publisher: Berkley
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Started out pretty good, got bogged down and finally jumped to end just to finish it.
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A good - but not great - biological terrorist novel, written before biological terrorism was the possibility it is now. Worth a read.
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A car bomb explodes on a crowded Dublin street...and an American scientist whose wife and children are killed plots a revenge so total that it staggers the imagination. Molecular scientist John Roe O'Neill unleashes a synthesized plague that kills only women. Unstoppable, selective and invariably fatal, it spells the doom of all mankind...

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Heavy summer reading that is addictive! Good climax!
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Scary especially with the plague involved.


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