Arrakis, the desert planet called Dune, has been the site of terrible war
and the source of a merciless holy crusade that swept the universe. All this
has been the result of the ascension to absolute power of the man known as
Muad'dib.
Twelve years after the beginning of the Fremen Jihad and his ascension to
the Imperial Throne, Paul Atreides faces a plot between three of the most
powerful factions in the universe: The Spacing Guild, the Bene Gesserit, and
the Tleilaxu. The Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and the Princess Irulan
plot against the Imperial concubine, Chani; the Tleilaxu and Guild attack
the Emperor's moral side by giving him a ghola, Duncan Idaho back from the
dead with no memory of his past life. But this ghola has an additional
value: the ability to distract the young sister of the Emperor, St. Alia of
the Knife.