Book description
The world just keeps getting tougher and more complicated. America
teeters on the edge of bankruptcy because of crushing foreign debt and
an apparent savior, The Talos Corporation, delivers training for
soldiers and security forces around the world, logistical support and
badly-needed troops economically, but with a hidden cost that's both
sinister and disturbing. The three rookie FBI agents who survived the
challenges portrayed in Quantico, have gone their separate ways but seem
fated to be drawn back together in an alliance against a surprising
challenge for which no one seems prepared. Rebecca Rose is brought back
from an extended sabbatical when the President is shot and her
second-in-command is implicated in an horrific crime-and all the threads
point deeper into Talos's secretive activities. Fouad Al-Husam, working
undercover inside Talos, has uncovered and been forced to hide vital
information of a takeover plot that threatens America's independence.
Nathan Trace, victim of a violent incident in the Middle East, struggles
with post-traumatic stress and seems to be recovering through
participation in a treatment program, code-named Mariposa, which has
unexpected side-effects that turn patients into brilliant, detached and
sociopathic individuals-very smart and extremely deadly. Only a
desperate combination of misfits and survivors can combat an apparently
inevitable collapse of American organization that will lead to the fall
of democracy. Greg Bear is one of the world's leading hard SF authors.
He sold his first short story, at the age of fifteen, to Robert
Lowndes's Famous Science Fiction. A full-time writer, he lives in
Washington State with his family. He is married to Astrid Anderson Bear.
They are the parents of two children, Erik and Alexandra. * #40 in the
Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science
fiction ever written. * Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in
its original shorter form. * One of the few SF writers capable of
following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition
and geological time Locus * Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable
rival yet The Times
