Born, raised, and still residing in Vancouver, Daniel Kalla spends his days (and sometimes nights) working as an Emergency Room Physician in a major teaching hospital. In his ‘off’ time, he writes and manages a dual career. He is the author of numerous books, which have been translated into eleven languages to date, and his Shanghai trilogy has been optioned for feature films.The idea for his first medical thriller, Pandemic, sprang from his clinical experience in facing the SARS crisis of 2003.
Kalla's new novel is The Last High.
At The Strand Magazine, he tagged eight favorite pandemic thrillers, including:
The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz (1981)Read about another entry on the list.
Many are calling Dean Koontz a prophet for “predicting” the current pandemic in 1981. That’s a stretch. There is a virus in this story named Wuhan-400 that wreaks havoc in Northern California, but the coincidences and parallels largely end there. Still, The Eyes of Darkness a ripping good thriller that would make for great poolside reading. Maybe not so much on a plane, though. Planes and pandemics, even fictional ones, don’t mix so well anymore.
--Marshal Zeringue
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