Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonneguts 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 Hoenikkers three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikkers Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh ...