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Book SynopsisDr 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 eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness.
Trade ReviewOne of the warmest, wisest, funniest voices to be found anywhere in fiction * Daily Telegraph *
The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting. You read him with enormous pleasure because he makes your hair stand on end * New York Times *
Vonnegut has looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched -- J. G. Ballard
