Pristine water possessing natural healing powers is found miles under Antarctic ice by a group of scientists who stand to make billions from its sale. While people around the world line up to buy the therapeutic water, ""new cases of mad cow disease explode in rural France. Dr. Noah Haldane and his World Health Organization team are urgently summoned. Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion, a microscopic protein that kills with the speed and ferocity...
Aftering seeing this book I decided to try Daniel's older "Blood Lies". I enjoyed it and decided to buy Cold Plague. I can't put my finger on why, but I enjoyed Blood Lies more. Despite that, I do think this is a good book.
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An amazing book. On the surface, a thriller about mysterious deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France, made more mysterious by emerging connection to water mined from an ancient lake buried deep under the Ice of Antarctica. The story becomes a race against time, as this ancient water begins to enter the market as an exotic product, the purest (hah!) water on Earth, selling to the richest of the rich at outrageous...
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I found this author after buying a paperback at a garage sale. Since then I have read all of his (Kalla's) books and waited anxiously for this one.....NOT DISAPPOINTED IN THE LEAST! Great read!
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Dr. Claude Fontaine and his team develop a method to bring to the surface fresh water from a gigantic lake two miles under the Antarctic ice. Claude sees the economic possibilities as his pristine pool will contain no modern day toxins. He plan is to sell bottles containing this natural water at exorbitant prices. The World Health Organization sends its investigative infectious disease specialist Dr. Noah Haldane (see PANDEMIC)...
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