"An ambulance streaks past on the Trans-Canada Highway with lights flashing and siren wailing to attend a car crash, a medical call or a high-elevation rescue.

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Motorists move aside, wondering what happened; sometimes that question is answered either when the ambulance is spotted on the side of the highway, its crew preparing a patient for transport to the hospital, days later when a photograph appears in the newspaper, or when the gossip mill catches up.

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Until we have reason or need, that glimpse is usually all we get of what life must be like as a paramedic or an emergency medical technician.

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But Graeme Pole, an author and paramedic, has that deeper view and he draws on both for his new novel, Siren Call."