The white plague – Frank A. Herbert – Berkley – 1982 – Blanda

**The white plague**: A car bomb explodes on a crowded Dublin street..., and an American scientist whose wife and children are killed plots a revenge so total that it staggers the imagination. Molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill unlashes a synthesized plague that kills only women. Unstoppable, selective and invariably fatal, it spells the doom of all humankind...