Blind Reason: A Novel of Pharmaceutical Intrigue

By Roan St. John

Blind Reason is a meticulously researched, character-driven thriller rooted in historical fact and modern intelligence intrigue.
When journalist and aspiring author Maya Warwick learns that her closest friend has taken her own life, she refuses to accept the official explanation. A single clue-an empty bottle of an experimental mood-altering drug-draws her into a world far darker and more complicated than she imagined.

Her search leads to VB Pharmaceuticals, a powerful company with quiet connections to Nazi-era psychotropic research and Cold War mind-control programs. What begins as a private investigation gradually becomes something else: a slow descent into a network of influence, secrecy, and hidden agendas that has survived for decades.
As Maya uncovers links between a concealed wartime fortune and a modern extremist movement, she finds herself caught between intelligence operatives, corporate power, and men who believe history can be rewritten. The deeper she goes, the more she realizes that the most dangerous threats are not the ones in the shadows-but the ones operating in plain sight.
First published in 2002 (under the author name Patricia Griffon) and inspired by real events from 1997-2001, Blind Reason now reads less like fiction and more like a warning.

Blind Reason introduces Maya Warwick, whose search for truth will eventually lead her far beyond Europe and into the seductive and dangerous world of Malpa s. Readers of the Expats on the Isthmus series will recognize the early threads-intelligence operations, hidden networks, and the personal history that continues to shape her choices.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1097643379
• ISBN13: 9781097643370
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"