In Dune, Frank Herbert named the assassin for the bad guys Piter DeVries, something I noticed not all at twelve or so when I first read the book. When I picked

In Dune, Frank Herbert named the assassin for the bad guys Piter DeVries, something I noticed not all at twelve or so when I first read the book. When I picked it up again over forty, I had read a couple of books by Peter DeVries, and immediately wondered what book of Herbert's DeVries might have savaged.