Ferkweed

It seemed that Nature purposely intervened. Two young Pacific islanders, a strange larrikin youth and an ethereal girl-woman, had been born in a most Sacred Place in desert Australia. Unknowingly, even to themselves, they are of a new evolutionary line. Together, they grow tall - fighting and balancing each other - trying to open a Himalayan path to peace between an economically raging China and a financially devastated bloc of of waning Western nations. And they come to believe the great, silent Creator God of the Aboriginal Race, The Rainbow Serpent, will guide the destinies and the fate of the world's suffering millions. They have few tools other than their Minds to head off a last nuclear crusade between China and the West - and the execution of the earth. A seemingly offworldly task - to mellow the peoples of the Earth. In time. They face Nature's attempt to derail the Human Race with a brand new batch of mega viruses from Equatorial Africa. But it is the discovery of a super-drug which threatens to overthrow the political spectrum they are seeking to tame that proves to be harrowing. The actual trigger for the new era of the Rainbow Serpent was a successful tactical Terrorist attack - which BACKFIRED and somehow brought hope to the world's poor and homeless - with a little help from their two young friends