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Une nouvelle interview de Greg Bear à propos de son roman Quantico. L'interview est ici

Damon Gambuto: So can you talk about QUANTICO, give a brief outline of the plot for our readers?

Greg Bear: Well, QUANTICO is set pretty close to tomorrow afternoon. We've got America still recovering from - kind of - a series of body blows. Not just 9/11, but there's another attack. The Middle East is in dire straits. Nothing surprising there, but it's getting worse. It looks like Saudi Arabia is starting to come apart at the seams. Oil revenues are threatened and we have a number of agent trainees that are about to graduate from the Academy and go out into the real world. One of whom, William Griffin, his father is a veteran FBI agent. His father is tracking a... kind of - a domestic terrorist in the Northwestern states - Washington State. Along the way, another agent Rebecca Rose, who is a veteran agent - a female agent of some years standing in the FBI who still faces prejudice in the FBI for being female - subtle prejudice, but it's there - is working a long term case involved with the American Anthrax crimes and she's tracking down inkjet printers actually. And these inkjet printers may have been used - she believes - in the American Anthrax case. But when a whole truckload of these printers is found abandoned near a police car in Arizona and the police patrol officer has been murdered and the car has been burned and the truck is wrecked and three hundred inkjet printers are spread over the freeway that alerts her attention. The FBI is called, she shows up and that begins a long trail of evidence leading to a pretty spectacular plot against religious institutions around the world. QUANTICO is pointing towards America's and the world's frustration with arguments that never stop. How they spiral out of control. How people can use technology and their own misguided cleverness to get us into even deeper trouble.