A paleobotanist by trade, Jim Buckner spent the first half of his career searching for medicinal value in ancient plants. His controversial discovery of a means to greatly prolong human life both ended his stint as a research scientist and threatened the lives of his daughter and himself. After being forcibly retired he began writing novels as a means to uncover the truth and expose the conspiracy surrounding his name. De Novo Syndrome and Desert Gods (February, 2013) combine to set the stage for the remainder of the DMB Files. Buckner is also chief editor of the Lost DMB Files, a series of pu...