More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in
DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure
of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually
immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with
a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can
breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto
Atreides must also bring about his own downfall...