All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies'. 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 eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to
madness. Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift
to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh? Told with deadpan
humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on
our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it...