DANIEL KALLA

Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine and crystal-meth habit claimed the life of his identical twin, Aaron. Now Ben walks onto the scene of a savage stabbing to find that the victim is his former fiancée, Emily Kenmore—another loved one who fell prey to drugs. Part of the carnage in Emily's bedroom is a single streak of blood caked on the wall. When the DNA from that sample matches Ben's, he becomes the prime suspect. Convinced his identical twin is still alive and somehow involved in Emily's death, Ben goes on the run, aiming to find Aaron. Working under an assumed identity at an inner-city clinic, Ben desperately searches for Aaron while playing cat-and-mouse with the authorities. But someone is determined to thwart his hunt at any cost. In the story's final twist, the truth hits closer to home and more lethally than Ben ever imagined. Set against the backdrop of the ER, Blood Lies is a medical thriller and a Fugitive-style suspense novel with a major twist. As Ben struggles to solve a tragic mystery from his past and clear his name, he might just learn that, sometimes, blood lies. . . .

In this new thriller from the international bestselling author of "Pandemic," Dr. Noah Haldane suspects that factors other than nature have ignited the spread of the deadly prion responsible for Mad Cow Disease. He just has to stay alive long enough to sound the alarm.

Primera y sorprendente novela del canadiense Daniel Kalla basada en el tristemente famoso virus de la gripe aviaria. Perfectamente documentado -el autor es médico de profesión-, el resultado es un thriller altamente realista que nos muestra un escenario no sólo posible, sino terroríficamente probable. Ambientada en China, el doctor Noah Haldane de la Organización Mundial de la Salud y experto en este tipo de enfermedades da la voz de alarma ante la existencia de un posible virus que trasciende las barreras existentes entre humanos y animales, exigiendo mayores y mejores medidas de prevención. Sin embargo, el doctor no sólo tendrá que enfrentarse a las horribles muertes. En el hospital del distrito entran dos personas, supuestamente ofi ciales gubernamentales, para sacar muestras de sangre de las víctimas. No les ha enviado ningún organismo ofi cial. Se trata de un desalmado grupo de terroristas que amenaza con hacer uso del virus en algún concurrido lugar del planeta. Pandemia es una apasionante y contemporánea visión de la sociedad actual que engancha desde la primera página y que hace de Kalla uno de los escritores más interesantes del panorama literario actual.

Think Contagion meets The Da Vinci Code in the next heart-stopping thriller from the internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla. IT STARTS WITH ONE PATIENT A woman is dying in an Italian hospital, coughing up blood, convulsing and barely conscious. BEFORE IT SPREADS TO THE TOWN Dr Alana Vaughn, an expert from NATO, confirms everyone's worst fears: the woman has the highly infectious disease that swept through Europe eight hundred years ago.The Black Death. AND TAKES THE CITY The sickness is spreading so quickly that soon the outbreak becomes a global pandemic. Markets crash and governments fall as quickly as the citizens they govern.THEN THE COUNTRY As panic takes hold and the death toll climbs, the consequences become horrifically clear - Alana must discover a way to stop the disease or it will be the end of us all. THEN THE WORLD