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Pierre Ouellette (born 1945) is a science fiction author.[1] He lives in Portland, Oregon. He wrote the science fiction thrillers The Deus Machine (Villard Books, 1994) and The Third Pandemic (Pocket Books, 1996). Writing under the name of Pierre Davis, his third novel A Breed Apart was published in 2009 by Bantam-Dell. A fourth book, entitled Origin Unknown is due out from the same publisher in July 2011. In 2000, Pierre sold the ad and PR agency he co-founded, and works as a video/film producer and guitarist when not writing.
A Breed Apart Pierre Davis. Dell, $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-440-24508-7Medical thriller meets gritty detective novel in this extremely well-written and suspenseful tale of a most unusual dog. When police detective Elliot Elliot is ordered to recover a missing research canine, he stumbles across a mysterious brain scan that contradicts the official records on his ex-girlfriendr’s comatose husband. In counterpoint, ruthless contract killer Victor Korvin seeks to capture the dog and deliver her to a financier desperate to save himself from a rapidly advancing medical condition. The nameless dog herself provides a third major viewpoint as her enhanced brain tries to make sense of the changing conditions that threaten her survival. Davis (The Third Pandemic as Pierre Ouellette) skillfully interweaves taut plotting, nuanced characters and convincing insight into the mind of a superintelligent animal whoe’s still, at heart, a dog. (May)
It's something Bantam wanted, he said. The mass-market paperback market is hard-core, really focused on name authors. (The publisher) said Ouellette was too hard to pronounce and O was farther down on the shelf. I thought about different names and came up with Miles Davis, someone I really admire. I liked the sound of Pierre Davis and there was no author by that name.
Pierre Ouellette: I had an absolutely adorable,120-pound chocolate lab named Rolo, who I dedicated the book to. People love the dog in the novel, which remains nameless to keep readers from anthropomorphizing it. I did a lot of research on animal intelligence to get the dogo’s character right. The challenge was to create a creature with intelligence approaching the human level, yet have it remain basically a dog. Gauging from reader reaction, it worked quite well.
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