Paperback. Pub Date :2008-5-1 Pages: 205 Publisher: Penguin Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony. Kurt Vonnegutscult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears ofwitnessing Armageddon and. worse still. surviving it ... Dr FelixHoenikker. one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb. hasleft a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor ofice-nine. a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entireplanet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikkers threeecentric children. to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. tomadness. Felix Hoenikkers Death Wish comes true when his last. fatal gift to mankind brings about the end. that for all of us. isnigh ...