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This ability to create characters woven throughout a fast-paced story is what keeps readers turning the page of Kalla’s bestselling books. And, of course, coming back for more.

“Pandemic is a sizzler. A killer epidemic that may go global–convincing and terrifying.”
Barbara D’Amato, author of Death of A Thousand Cuts and White Male Infant

“At last! A new thriller writer worthy to join the Ludlum, DeMille, LeCarre club. Not just a great read, a real treat.”
Beverly Swerling, author of City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterdam and Early Manhattan

“Pandemic is a totally compelling novel, one of those rare thrillers that lays out a scenario that is not only possible, but terrifyingly probable.”
Douglas Preston, author of Relic and The Codex

“Pandemic is fast, fierce and frightening. Kalla delivers a shot of adrenaline in a medical thriller that really thrills.”
Don Winslow, author of California Fire and The Life and Death of BobbyZ

“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, author of Psychopath on Pandemic

“Thoroughly satisfying.”
National Post

“An amazing novel.”
Huffington Post

“The novel never falters. . . . Readers are sure to develop a genuine interest in the characters’ fates.”
VANCOUVER SUN

“Kalla offers a dramatic narrative in an obscure WWII battlefield… does his best work in drawing believable characters.”
Kirkus Review

“Rising Sun, Falling Shadow succeeds admirably as a historical drama.”
Edmonton Journal

“Despite its grim subject matter, this gripping historical novel communicates a hopeful message about the power of love and friendship to overcome hatred.”
Booklist

“A vivid, realistic novel that rewards the emotional investment it encourages.”
The Vancouver Sun

“Wartime Shanghai provides a magnificent canvas for Daniel Kalla to depict a world of people, religions and continents colliding. These are wonderful characters, and Sunny Mah is a heroine for the ages.”
Adam Lewis Schroeder, author of Empress of Asia

“Wartime Shanghai is captured in vivid, tumultuous detail in this adrenalized survival epic.”
William Deverell, author of Snow Job and Kill All The Judges

“Combining his medical background with meticulous research, Daniel Kalla has written the best sort of historical fiction, in which individual lives are shaken by the tectonic forces of history—and then miraculously reconstructed.”
David Layton, author of The Bird Factory and Motion Sickness

“One is reminded of Michener and Clavell: both very good storytellers… whose readers deeply enjoyed them for the things they learned, the lives they were allowed to share and the histories they were privileged to glimpse. That’s storytelling, pure and simple.”
The National Post

“I ate up this novel… Recommended.”
Historical Novel Society

“Plenty of suspense and layering the kind of scientific detail the fans of the medical thrillers crave. Recommended to fans of Robin Cook and other such A-listers…”
Booklist

“Well-written novel… Kalla, an emergency-room physician, employs just enough medical realism to carry a wild tale through one cliff-hanger chapter after another.”
Library Journal

“A terrific read.”
Globe & Mail

“Of Flesh And Blood is great story-telling. Daniel Kalla has written a remarkably compelling novel of vivid, driven characters and the hard choices they are forced to make. ”
David Liss, Bestselling author

“Daniel Kalla, a worthy successor of Robin Cook, shows as deft a hand in penning this compelling tale as he no doubt does in the operating room.”
Eileen Goudge, New York Times Bestselling Author

“Daniel Kalla deftly portrays the triumph and heartbreak of life-or-death matters.”
Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author

“This novel should appeal to any reader who enjoys a rich medical narrative that combines the past with the present and throws into the mix visionary doctors, supportive nurses, hospital politics, children with cancer, celebrity patients, a lethal infection, adultery, and unrequited love.”
Library Journal

“Kalla continues his rapid rise in the thriller ranks with a gripping fourth novel…” Seattle PI

“Kalla’s well paced medical thriller has twists that surprise us, but always make sense.” Entertainment Weekly

“Fast paced and smartly written. Kalla has quickly matured into a force to be reckoned with… The novel springs several fresh surprises on the reader (including one whopping great shocker). ” Booklist

“Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow’s debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in Blood Lies… The twists are well done, and Kalla has a gift rare in the thriller field for creating sympathetic characters. ” Publishers Weekly

“Rage Therapy is a compelling story. It’s layered and nuanced… Kalla might well grow to be the James Patterson or John Grisham of the medical world.”
January Magazine

“Gripping”
The Vancouver Sun

“His first novel, Pandemic, was as fine a medical thriller as I’ve ever read; his newest, Rage Therapy, is a taut psychological thriller that will pull you into a world of sexual deviancy, murder, and mind games. A very good read.”
Nelson DeMille, New York Times #1 best-selling author

“Kalla navigates the emerging fields of impulse and rage control therapy, and the issue of doctor/patient abuse, turning it all into an ingenious thriller.”
The Ottawa Citizen

“Kalla is back with another gripper…” The Ottawa Citizen

“Daniel Kalla’s prescription for a perfect thriller includes snappy characters, a pace that sweeps up a reader and not too much technical jargon… the kind of magnetic story you can’t put down. And the twist at the end of the book is the flourish that caps a strong story.”
The Vancouver Province

“(Kalla) continues his remarkable side career as the author of knowledgeable, but very scary medical thrillers.” The Seattle Post Intelligencer

“Kalla builds suspense and keeps the medical action moving.”
The Globe & Mail

"A superbly written suspense novel… We All Fall Down is both a vivid history lesson and a heart-pounding warning, resulting in a page-turning obsession" Steven Hartov, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of a Thief

“Similar in many ways to Michael Crichton and even Dan Brown’s bestsellers, Cold Plague is testament to just how good commercial fiction can be: entertaining, informative, and downright fun.”
Winnipeg Free Press

“Daniel Kalla plunges us straight into the frenzied pace of the OR and a medical drama that spans a hundred years. He’s a strong storyteller who keeps his characters moving and struggling, and we’re right there, struggling with them, rooting for them.”
The Vancouver Sun

“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, author of Body Double on Pandemic

An amazing novel seeped in vivid descriptions of Austria and China.”
The Huffington Post

“The author of five medical thrillers and a family saga successfully switches gears here. With its unusual setting and blend of terror, hope, and love, this historical novel deserves a wide readership.”
Library Journal

“An exciting, often touching story that combines wartime peril and romance in an attractive mix… (Kalla) knows how to weave a good tale, and his characters are endearing… deftly combines fact and fiction.”
Booklist