Today it's the coronavirus. Once, it was the Black Death - a disease that wiped out millions of people. And if the plague were to return to the world now?
Billions would die.
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 - AND WE ALL FALL DOWN
At the height of an epidemic, what kind of person will you become? Think Contagion meets The Da Vinci Code in the next heart-stopping thriller from the internationally bestselling author Daniel Kalla.
* * * PRAISE for WE ALL FALL DOWN * * *
'A tightly plotted thriller, energetic and completely believable' Booklist
‘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
‘A great thriller hero never hesitates… Dr. Alana Vaughn is the woman readers will want on their side when stalked by the most terrible of all plagues in We All Fall Down’ Justin Scott, author of The Shipkiller, Rampage, and the Isaac Bell adventure novels with Clive Cussler
'A page-turner'
'Definitely a book I'm going to be pushing to all my friends this spring!'
'A compulsive read with well developed characters that will hold you on the edge of your seat till the final pages'
'We All Fall Down is a frightening story because it's so plausible'
'Mr. Kalla is one of my favourite authors and I wouldn’t miss any of his books. I read them all . . . This latest is a well-done nail biting thriller . . .'
Really liked this story line! It hits way close to home, so if you're sensitive to COVID-related or adjacent topics like masking, pandemics/epidemics then steer away. The science/medical aspects are extremely well-written and explained, so I didn't feel dumb. There's only one romantic scene, and it didn't contain any problematic language (like some male-written romance does). Recommend for folx who enjoy realistic science fiction or medical thrillers.
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