Pandemic - Daniel Kalla
A killer version of influenza has been released by terrorists to get American troops out of Islamic lands, and Noah Haldane with the WHO has to stop the spread.
Kalla is a physician from right here in Vancouver, and has done a pretty good job with this book. It took me a while to get through it. At first I thought maybe we had another Michael Crichton type writer because it was really exciting, however, the excitement started to wane about half way through.
We learn a bit about Noah's home life in the book. That he has a daughter named Chloe, and a wife who is having an affair with a woman since Noah always seems to be off on business. The story around Noah and his wife Anna and their crumbling marriage doesn't have a lot of interesting things about it and I didn't really think that it was essential to the story. To me it seemed like filler, maybe to grab female readers.
Anyways, as Noah is zipping around the world trying to contain the pandemic, we are shown the world of the Islamic extremists and their motives for spreading the disease to take America to her knees.
This book was ok, but that's about as glowing a rating as I can give it.
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