Events

Watch For Upcoming Articles By Bob Reiss In 2010.

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC

Barrow, Alaska has been called "ground zero for climate change science." Reiss spent part of summer 2009 in Barrow and several remote Alaskan villages, for Smithsonian Magazine, following changes to the region caused by global warming. Reiss traveled by Black Hawk helicopter across the area, as a guest of the Coast Guard. He interviewed Inupiat elders and hunters, scientists, and also White House and military authorities about what these changes will mean in Alaska, to the US, and to the world.

DRUG INTERDICTION IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC

Reiss spent two weeks on the US Coast Guard cutter Sherman, getting a close up and behind the scenes view of drug interdiction efforts off Central America. Watch for this piece in Parade Magazine.

Selected Works

Fiction
Black Monday
A genetically engineered microbe has stopped the world's petroleum supply. If an antidote isn't found within 50 days, the collapse will reach the point of no return.
The Side Effect
The side effect of a new drug heightens human intuition to an astounding degree. Who will control the drug?
At Hell's Gate
Could the dead body that Conrad Voort finds in the East River be related to a sunken treasure ship in New York Harbor? Or something more deadly, modern and international in scope?
2. Novel
All The Dead Were Strangers
The novel examines how far a free society can and should go in combating terrorism.
3. Non-Fiction
The Coming Storm Extreme Weather and our Terrifying Future
“The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read.” Bill McKibben,
--New York Observer