Cat s Cradle
Penguin Books
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony Kurt Vonnegut s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and worse still surviving it Dr Felix Hoenikker one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb has left a deadly legacy to the world For he is the inventor of ice nine a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker s three ecentric children to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean to madness Felix Hoenikker s Death Wish comes true when his last fatal gift to mankind brings about the end that for all of us is nigh
