Rage Therapy [Hardcover]

Daniel Kalla (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Tom Doherty: NY; 1 edition (2000)
• ASIN: B002BGJ0BQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Born, raised, and still residing in Vancouver, Kalla spends his days (and sometimes nights) working as an ER Physician in an urban teaching hospital.

The idea for his first medical thriller, PANDEMIC, sprang from his clinical experience in facing the SARS crisis of 2003. He has written five science thrillers and or medical mysteries, delving into themes and topics as diverse as superbugs, drug addiction, prions, DNA evidence, pandemics and patient abuse.

Kalla's sixth book, OF FLESH AND BLOOD, is a departure from the medical thriller genre. Featuring two multi-generational families, a major West Coast medical center and interwoven storylines, he tackles the human condition through the loves, lives and struggles of characters connected by lineage and bound by family secrets.

His books have been translated into ten languages, and Pandemic and Resistance have been optioned for feature films.

Daniel received his MD from the University of British Columbia. He is married and the proud father of two girls in a home predominated by the XX chromosome (even his beloved Labrador retriever, Lola, is female.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than the last one, October 18, 2006

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Tina "Tina" (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rage Therapy (Hardcover)

I just finished Rage Therapy. This author has been 50-50 for me so far, so I hesitated with Rage Therapy. I am glad that I ended up getting it.

The story of psychologist Joel - being asked to "solve" the murder of his friend and co-worker is slow starting. At the beginning, I was wondering if this would be yet another slow moving Kalla novel (I hated his previous book and loved his first one)but it soon picks up and I found myself totally engrossed.

Quick paced and entertaining and kept me guessing.

Nice medical thriller. Not as good as Pandemic, but pretty good.

3.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic people, March 2, 2010

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Evan the Dweezil (A Place-Sort Of, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rage Therapy (Mass Market Paperback)

Rage Therapy centers around the deaths of two shrinks who happen to be some of the most disgusting and horrible people alive and another shrink who is a dundering coward. All three of these despicable men get their just desserts, though I thought the punishment Joel received was more of a slap on the wrist considering the amount of obstructing he was guilty of. No rainbows or HEA here, just a gritty story about the deviants of our society.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A FUN READ:, April 8, 2010

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IAN BRUCE-DOUGLAS "AZLBRAX" (The Cat Farm, North Central Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rage Therapy (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third book I've read by Kalla and I must say that he is maturing into a fine thriller writer. His books hold my attention so well that I usually go through one in within 2 days of starting it. While his subject matter is medical-based, he doesn't mire down the "good stuff" with too much medical techno-babble. His characters are well defined and the action keeps moving right along, almost from Page 1. I could think of many worse ways to spend my leisure time!