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REVIEWS & PRAISE

  • Redcarpetcrash
    A well-written novel that looks at the crisis that people deal with everyday when buying and doing drugs. You never really know what you’re getting.
  • Vancouver Sun
    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
    “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
    PANDEMIC
  • PANDEMIC
    “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
  • PANDEMIC
    “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
  • PANDEMIC
    “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
    PANDEMIC
  • PANDEMIC
    “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
    PANDEMIC
  • NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
    “Thoroughly satisfying.”
    National Post
    NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
  • NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
    “An amazing novel.”
    Huffington Post
    NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
  • NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
    “The novel never falters. . . . Readers are sure to develop a genuine interest in the characters’ fates.”
    VANCOUVER SUN
    NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI
  • RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
    “Kalla offers a dramatic narrative in an obscure WWII battlefield… does his best work in drawing believable characters.”
    Kirkus Review
    RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
  • RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
    “Rising Sun, Falling Shadow succeeds admirably as a historical drama.”
    Edmonton Journal
    RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
  • RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
    “Despite its grim subject matter, this gripping historical novel communicates a hopeful message about the power of love and friendship to overcome hatred.”
    Booklist
    RISING SUN, FALLING SHADOW
  • RISING SUN, FALLIG SHADOW
    “A vivid, realistic novel that rewards the emotional investment it encourages.”
    The Vancouver Sun
    RISING SUN, FALLIG SHADOW
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “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
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “Wartime Shanghai is captured in vivid, tumultuous detail in this adrenalized survival epic.”
    William Deverell, author of Snow Job and Kill All The Judges
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “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
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “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
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “I ate up this novel… Recommended.”
    Historical Novel Society
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • COLD PLAGUE
    “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
    COLD PLAGUE
  • COLD PLAGUE
    “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
    COLD PLAGUE
  • COLD PLAGUE
    “A terrific read.”
    Globe & Mail
    COLD PLAGUE
  • OF FLESH AND BLOOD
    “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
    OF FLESH AND BLOOD
  • OF FLESH AND BLOOD
    “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
    OF FLESH AND BLOOD
  • OF FLESH AND BLOOD
    “Daniel Kalla deftly portrays the triumph and heartbreak of life-or-death matters.”
    Susan Wiggs, New York Times bestselling author
    OF FLESH AND BLOOD
  • OF FLESH AND BLOOD
    “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
    OF FLESH AND BLOOD
  • BLOOD LIES
    “Kalla continues his rapid rise in the thriller ranks with a gripping fourth novel…” Seattle PI
    BLOOD LIES
  • BLOOD LIES
    “Kalla’s well paced medical thriller has twists that surprise us, but always make sense.” Entertainment Weekly
    BLOOD LIES
  • BLOOD LIES
    “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
    BLOOD LIES
  • BLOOD LIES
    “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
    BLOOD LIES
  • RAGE THERAPY
    “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
    RAGE THERAPY
  • RAGE THERAPY
    “Gripping”
    The Vancouver Sun
    RAGE THERAPY
  • RAGE THERAPY
    “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
    RAGE THERAPY
  • RAGE THERAPY
    “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
    RAGE THERAPY
  • RESISTANCE
    “Kalla is back with another gripper…” The Ottawa Citizen
    RESISTANCE
  • RESISTANCE
    “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
    RESISTANCE
  • RESISTANCE
    “(Kalla) continues his remarkable side career as the author of knowledgeable, but very scary medical thrillers.” The Seattle Post Intelligencer
    RESISTANCE
  • RESISTANCE
    “Kalla builds suspense and keeps the medical action moving.”
    The Globe & Mail
    RESISTANCE
  • WE ALL FALL DOWN
    "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
    WE ALL FALL DOWN
  • COLD PLAGUE
    “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
    COLD PLAGUE
  • OF FLESH AND BLOOD
    “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
    OF FLESH AND BLOOD
  • PANDEMIC
    “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
    PANDEMIC
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    An amazing novel seeped in vivid descriptions of Austria and China.”
    The Huffington Post
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “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
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
  • THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY
    “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
    THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY