Blind Reason: A Novel Of Pharmaceutical Intrigue

Blind Reason is an ambitious and insidious tale of a global conspiracy to launch a Fourth Reich. Amidst a tangled web of insatiable greed, mind-altering pharmaceuticals, rogue spies, and a vast fortune hidden in a Swiss bank, the story begins at the end of WWII with the discovery of the Merkers mine in which 8000 paintings of Nazi propaganda art, along with tons of gold and other valuables stashed by the Nazis, was uncovered by U.S. soldiers. It is decided that the art must be stored away forever - preferably on US soil on a military base in Southern Colorado. More than 50 years later, this collection becomes germane to the story.Maya Warwick, a reclusive author living in a mountain community outside Denver, discovers that her best friend, Thea Rousseau, has committed suicide. The only clue Maya can find is an empty bottle of Euphorin, the latest Prozac-like "mood brightener." Fearing that Thea's actions were a side effect of the medication, Maya researches Euphorin and its manufacturer and discovers that FetcherBurkeWinslow is a subsidiary of VB Pharmaceuticals (referred to as the "poison machine of the Third Reich") and that VB was the maker of the psychotropic drugs used in mind-control experiments at Auschwitz. From there, her investigation leads to various neo-Nazi websites where she learns that Baron Alexander von Brandt, president of VB Pharmaceuticals, is the reputed leader of a burgeoning Nazi party and the son of a former Third Reich minister. Maya posts her conspiracy theories on various Internet bulletin boards alleging that the Nazis are trying to wrangle the bleating herds into a planetary corral, attracting the attention of a couple of CIA ops who have been monitoring suspicious websites since the 9-11 terrorist attacks. She is lured into an online relationship with one of them, totally unaware that she is under the scrutiny of the CIA.By total chance, she meets Andrew Chase, a traumatized war journalist whose father was the one who insisted that Patton ship the propaganda art to the US. She confides her suspicions to Andrew who tells his father and eventually meets the man in charge of the infamous CIA experiments known as Project MK-Ultra. Riggs Haywood ardently recruits Maya into Operation SHADOWHAWK, a black project set up to entrap Baron von Brandt into disclosing his plans for advancing the new Nazi party. Besides wanting to know how von Brandt intends to access the vast sum of money and gold stashed in Credit Suisse by his father before the collapse of the Third Reich, he is particularly interested in the ways in which the drug Euphorin could be used in mind control. Once recruited, Maya is assigned a new name and identity and is sent to Munich to be squired to Baron von Brandt's lavish Christmas extravaganza by a nefarious CIA sleeper named Horst Freundlich. It then becomes her mission to ferret out von Brandt's intentions. After several meetings, he discloses his vision of a future world comprised of genetically engineered people whose lives are enhanced by pharmaceuticals that induce neurochemical bliss. Several attempts are made on her life before Harry Langdon, one of the CIA ops who helped ensnare her in this diabolical plot, rescues her. Both he and Maya seek asylum in Switzerland under the auspices of Swiss intelligence. The first edition of this book was released in 2002. The story was inspired by true events that took place between the years 1997-2001 and which are woven into the fabric of the story. In the intervening years between then and 2019, we have seen the steady rise in white nationalism, neo-Nazi groups, and anti-immigration zealots as well as nearly weekly mass shootings committed most often by people who have been medicated with Euphorin-type psychiatric drugs. Blind Reason is more relevant today than when it was first released nearly 20 years ago.

• | Author: Roan St John
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 466 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1097643379
• | ISBN-13: 9781097643370