White Plague, The, by Herbert, Frank

Frank Herbert's The White Plague is almost an end of the world novel. This time, however, the threat is from a man-made plague virus that attacks and kills only females with an absolute 100% mortality rate. The man who made it, an American ex-pat in Ireland named John Roe O'Day, did so in an unexplainable fit of selfishness and rage after watching the virtual liquification of his beloved wife and twin children by an IRA made bomb carefully secreted into the trunk of a patsy's ca[…]

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