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It's the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs, and no one feels safe. In North America, the FBI uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. The War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate.
The FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. Like the Anthrax threat of 2001, a plague targeted to ethnic groups has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There's a good chance that agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover--and the man they chase--prove far more complex than anyone expects.
"Eerily plausible...his would-be terrorists become surprisingly sympathetic as the complex details of their true plan are slowly (sometimes too slowly) revealed." - PW.
"His legion of fans will be lining up for this one, and the novel's cross-genre appeal should guarantee it an even wider readership than usual." - Booklist.
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Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, on August 20th, 1951, to Wilma M. and
Dale F. Bear. His father was in the navy so as a child he had traveled
extensively to Japan, the Philippines and Alaska, as well as
touring various parts of the United States.
He completed his first short story at the age of 10 while living in
Alaska. At age thirteen or fourteen he began to submit
stories to magazines, and at fifteen he sold his first short short to Robert
Lowndes' Famous Science Fiction magazine, but it didn't appear in print
until he was sixteen years old. It took five
years to sell his next story, but by the time he was twenty-three he was selling
regularly. He completed his first novel when he was nineteen but it was not
published until 13 years later (having been...
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