  
Kronk - Novel 1971
P 939 - the greatest venereal disease in the history of mankind.
The day Gabriel Chrome, a failed book sculptor contemplating his suicide
on the Thames Embankment, stumbled on the suicide bid of the naked Camilla
Greylaw, was a day of hopeful redemption for a corrupt and violent world.
For the lovely form that he chanced to preserve was the sole carrier of
a contagious venereal disease. A bug which would inhibit the aggressive
instinct, rendering total placidity in all humans. At once Gabriel's life
has new meaning and purpose. To save mankind becomes his hardened ambition.
But mankind seems far from hope.
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