The novel “Mariposa” by Greg Bear was published for the first time in 2009. It’s the result of “Quantico”.

The USA is near bankruptcy due to a foreign debt completely out of control. Talos Corporation is offering to save the nation but does it taking an increasing control of various government agencies. What exactly are the plans of Talos’s CEO Axel Price?

The FBI is about to be closed after it came out defeated from a political conflict around old and new law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Some FBI agents must investigate important cases, including the US president’s shooting, a psychiatric treatments that cause dangerous side effects and even Talos Corporation, but are hampered even in an open way.