Twelve years after claiming the imperial throne, Paul Muad'Dib rules an empire built on religious fervour and conquest. The jihad waged in his name has swept across the galaxy, killing billions - and Paul, despite his prescient visions, has been powerless to stop it. Now a conspiracy unites his most dangerous enemies: the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, the Spacing Guild, the Tleilaxu, and Paul's own wife, Princess Irulan. At the centre of their plot is a gift - a ghola, a being reconstructed from the dead - that carries a purpose Paul can foresee but cannot avoid. A novel about the trap of power and the price of godhood.
