Irvine Welsh Trust for social inclusion in Edinburgh. In "Crime", Ray Lennox (from Welsh's previous work, "Filth") is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. The story takes place in Florida. In 2012 Welsh published a prequel to "Trainspotting", titled "Skagboys". Set in Leith in the early 1980s, it introduces the "Trainspotting" characters and follows them as they fall into heroin addiction. Given as a series of linked short stories, the book is also interspersed with brief commentaries on contemporary British politics. In particular, the consequences
Mariposa (novel) administration that is still reviled by the time of "Queen of Angels" in 2047. Mariposa (novel) Mariposa (2009) is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear as both a sequel to "Quantico" and a prequel to "Queen of Angels", featuring characters from both earlier works. Set in 2021 America, whose government is more than fifty trillion dollars in debt, the novel follows an FBI investigation of the Talos Corporation (a thinly disguised Blackwater) which plans to disable the power grid across the entire Eastern seaboard in a simultaneous, coordinated attack of domestic terrorism, which will trigger the provisions of