Bob Reiss is a best selling American author of nonfiction and fiction books. Reiss has written more than 19 books, including 'Purgatory Road, a murder mystery set in Antarctica, The Road to Extrema, a study of the destruction of Brazilian rain forests, and The Coming Storm, which focuses on global warming and catastrophic weather. Many of his books and articles are based on his travels to Alaska, Hong Kong, Somalia, South Africa, Antarctica, and other locations around the world. "White Plague," a novel set on a US icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean, is due out in 2015. Under the pseudonym of Ethan Black, Reiss has penned a series featuring Conrad Voort, a New York City police detective. The five books published in this series include: The Broken Hearts Club - Irresistible - All the Dead Were Strangers - Dead For Life - At Hell's Gate - In 2012, Reiss published "The Eskimo and The Oil Man," a non-fiction book about the opening Arctic, and the fight over offshore drilling there, as seen through the eyes of a Shell oil executive, and an Inupiat Eskimo leader in Alaska. [More at Wikipedia]

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