Cold Plague by Daniel Kalla
Pristine water--millions of years old and untouched by pollution--is discovered miles under Antarctic ice. Meanwhile, a cluster of new cases of Mad Cow disease explodes in a rural France. Dr. Noah Haldane and his WHO team are urgently summoned. Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion that kills with the speed and ferocity of a virus, but he suspects factors other than nature have ignited its spread among animals and people in France. Facing a spate of disappearances and unexplained deaths, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from Moscow to Beverly Hills, and from the North to the South Pole. He soon realizes that the scientific find of the century--a body of water the size of Lake Michigan buried under the Antarctic ice--might hold the key to a microscopic Jurassic Park. "Fast paced and smartly written. Kalla has quickly matured into a force to be reckoned with." -- Booklist
"Meticulously detailed and carefully plotted new thriller..." -- Publishers Weekly
Born and raised in Vancouver, Dan Kalla is as an Emergency Room physician and author of five suspense and medical thriller. His works have been translated into ten languages, and two of his novels, Resistance and Pandemic, have been optioned for film. Cold Plague (April '08) is his first sequel, to the novel, Pandemic. Next year, his epic multi-generational novel, Hospital, will be released. At forty-one, Dan is married and the father of two girls. When not doctoring or writing, he is an avid skier and hockey player.
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