The Last High, Daniel Kalla
The Last High, Daniel Kalla
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The Last High

Author: Daniel Kalla

Narrator: Nancy Wu

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/12/2020


Synopsis

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

In this riveting novel from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver doctor and a detective face the deadly consequences of the opioid crisis as they track down the supplier of fentanyl that landed a group of teens in the ER with critical overdoses.

Deliberately or not, they must’ve been poisoned…And if it happened to them…

There will be others.

Dr. Julie Rees, a toxicologist and ER doctor, is stunned when her emergency room is flooded with teenagers from the same party, all on the verge of death. Julie knows the world of opioids inside and out, and she recognizes that there’s nothing typical about these cases. She suspects the teens took—or were given—fentanyl. But why did they succumb so quickly?

Detective Anson Chen is determined to find out. He and Julie race to track down the supplier of the deadly drugs. But the trail of suspects leads everywhere, from unscrupulous street dealers to ruthless gang leaders who hide behind legitimate business fronts and the walls of their mansions.

As Anson and Julie follow clues through the drug underworld, Julie finds herself haunted by memories of her troubled past—and the lover she lost to addiction. When other overdoses fill the ER—and the morgue—Julie realizes that something even more sinister than the ongoing fentanyl crisis is devastating the streets. And the body count is rapidly rising.

A gripping thriller, The Last High explores the perfect storm of greed, addiction, and crime behind the malignant spread of fentanyl, a deadly drug that is killing people faster than any known epidemic.

About Daniel Kalla

Daniel Kalla is an internationally bestselling author of many novels, including Fit to Die, The Darkness in the Light, Lost Immunity, The Last High, and We All Fall Down. Kalla practices emergency medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia. Visit him at DanielKalla.com or follow him on Twitter @DanielKalla.


Reviews

When I was younger, dreaming about my future career in medicine (I thought I was going to be an orthopedic surgeon), I read Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, and Leonard Goldberg novels incessantly. Eventually, Cook's novels became biased and ridiculous, Michael Palmer passed away, and I think Goldberg st......more

Goodreads review by PamG

THE LAST HIGH by Daniel Kalla is a medical thriller and a romantic suspense story set in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Julie Rees is a toxicologist and emergency room doctor. One night the ER is filled with overdosed teenagers from the same party. While she initially suspects fentanyl, she doesn’t yet unde......more

Disturbing And Frightening Medical Thriller! Dr. Julie Rees an emergency room doctor who also happens to be a toxocologist is working the night shift when a call suddenly comes through with five teens on the way to the hospital who are not breathing and they all attended the same party. The first ass......more

Goodreads review by Paul

“ … beneath Vancouver’s beautiful veneer lies a lot of ugliness.” It was true when Canadian author William Deverell penned his iconic best-selling legal thriller NEEDLES and it’s true now. Vancouver is a city with an evil, insidious drug problem. In 1988, it was heroin and, while heroin is still......more