Between the end of Frank Herbert s Dune and his next novel Dune Messiah lies a mystery how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul of Dune begins the story of those twelve fateful years and the wars of the jihad of Paul Muad Dib. It is an epic of battle and betrayal; of love and idealism; of ambition and intrigue. Above all it is the story of how Paul Atreides who achieved absolute power when scarcely more than a boy changes from an idealist into a dictator who is the prisoner of the bureaucrats and fanatics who surround him. Have you read Dune And have you read Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson s novels continuing the story The latest are Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune.