Reiss, Keith

Technology's pervasive and narcotic influence on society fascinated Keith Reiss well before he began researching the molecular physics of DNA at Duke University, where the seeds of his first novel, The Gemini Conspiracy, were sewn. In Gemini, biophysicist Glen Cannon and soon-to-be medical doctor Virginia Blaine become ensnarled within an epic convolution of secretive and dangerous interests that co-opt the development of a harmless scientific discovery, taking it in a deadly direction. In Reiss' second novel, River of Scorpions, Blaine, now a high level NIH researcher, is sent to the Belize o...