Vancouver EP becomes bestselling author

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Dan Kalla, an emergency physician at St. Paul's and Mt. St. Joseph's hospitals in Vancouver, has signed a multi-book deal with a New York publisher. His first novel, Pandemic, debuted on the top ten bestseller list with close to 200 000 copies in print. The early reviews below say it all. Congratulations Dan. -- Grant Innes

PANDEMIC - a novel by Emergency Physician Dan Kalla -- now available at bookstores...

When a new fu virus with pandemic potential emerges in rural China, terrorists infect themselves as "suicide bombers" to tactically disseminate the virus in the West. Dr. Noah Haldane, an infectious disease specialist, teams up with Dr. Gwen Savard, a counter-bioterrorism expert, in a race to track down a terrorist mastermind before he turns a natural epidemic into a manmade Armageddon . . .

Early reviews for PANDEMIC

"Kalla's ripped-from-the-headlines plot and confident command of both language and medicine make this sobering book a pleasure." -- Publishers Weekly

"Daniel Kalla expertly weaves real science and medicine into a fast-paced, nightmarish thriller -- a thriller all the more frightening because it could really happen." -- Tess Gerritsen, bestselling NY Times author of Body Double

"Kalla is a rocket ship of a writer. He moves to the front of the pack with a thriller that will grab you from page one and never let you go." -- Keith Ablow, bestselling author of Psychopath