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| View Larger Image | Pandemic | Mass Market Paperbackby Daniel Kalla (Author)
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| | Binding: | Mass Market Paperback | | Publisher: | Forge Books | | Page Count: | 416 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 01, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 99,867th |
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Product Description
Genesis of a PlagueRight now, in a remote corner of rural China, a farmer and his family are sharing their water supply with their livestock: chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep. They share the same waste-disposal system, too.Bird viruses meet their human counterparts in the bloodstreams of the swine, where they mix and mutate before spreading back into the human population. And a new flu is born....Dr. Noah Haldane, of the World Health Organization, knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, like the great influenza pandemic of 1919 that killed more than twenty million people in less than four months. So when a mysterious new strain of flu is reported in the Gansu Province of mainland China, WHO immediately sends a team to investigate. Haldane and his colleagues soon discover that the new disease, dubbed Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome, is far more deadly than SARS, killing one in four victims, regardless of their age or health. But even as WHO struggles to contain the outbreak, ARCS is already spreading to Hong Kong, London, and even America.In an age when every single person in the world is connected by three commercial flights or fewer, a killer bug can travel much faster than the flu of 1919.Especially when someone is spreading the virus on purpose... |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 27 reviews)
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Entertaining, but weak story by Patrice Deware (New Orleans)  2 Stars
October 02, 2009
Pandemic by Daniel Kalla is an entertaining and highly relevant apocalyptic adventure story (in these times with h1n1, SARS, swine-, bird- and Mexican flu) yet as a high ranked epidemic-focused science fiction thriller, the style and rythm of the story seem to be out of synch. On occasion the storyline bogs down into too much technical detail about virology and epidemology, which interrupts the pace of the narration. Not that some stretches of the book are too slow; the book is in general fast moving. Parts are are not very realistic (especially if you know more about the topic) and on occasion it is hard to connect with the main protagonists.
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Pandemic by Irene Gardner (Ogden, UT USA)  5 Stars
August 14, 2009
This genera fills my soul with dread and delight. Specifically, Daniel Kalla met my every expectation and exceeded it. It never ceases to amaze me how evil can prevail in men's hearts and souls, and call it good or even holy. I learned a lot more about terrorists--both human and biological--than I wish existed. This is a fast-paced pandemic of a book. A must read for medical thriller fans.
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What if terrorists gave martyrs a killer flu? by Reg Nordman (Vancouver, BC Canada) 5 Stars
May 13, 2009
It started as the flu..... What if terrorists "weaponized" a killer flu and sent martyrs out to infect the rest of the world? Kalla is a Vancouver doctor, who write this after the SARs scare. Move over Robin Cook here is another author who can scare you while you are sitting on your sofa. Good pace, and better character development than most "popular" writers bother with these days. (This review is for all my friends who wanted me to also list my "fiction" reads. If I don't watch much TV - I get more reading in)
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Good Reading by Woodlandtrails  4 Stars
March 10, 2009
Read it in 2 days. Realistic Muslim terrorist bio threat with a slight love twist added in. The book was very a simplistic no brainer. I enjoyed it.
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Predictable but well-done by Ferret818  3 Stars
July 13, 2008
Pandemic thrillers appear to be one of the popular subjects for today's thrillers. Though published in 2005, this issue will contine to resonate.
Well-research and written, I believe the fear of a pandemic is real despite the probability being low. The fear is captured as well as the potential. What I did not like was the connection to, and blame on, Islamic terrorists. What could have been a decent thriller ala Outbreak turns into a predictable, cliche-riddle, well, terrorist story. Post 9/11 terrorism connections appear to be the rage as well and I wish today's authors would stay away from it like they would stay away from the flu described in this book. Though relevant, it has become common place and unoriginal.
I have not read Kalla's Resistance but after reviewing the notes for it, I fear it will be the same as Pandemic, only with a bacteria vice a virus.
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