Cat's Cradle (Penguin Modern Classics)

Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of 'ice-nine' a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last fatal gift to mankind brings about the end that for all of us is nigh.|Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. During the Second World War he was a prisoner in Germany and present at the bombing of Dresden an experience he r...See More