How do some books appear to predict events? A virus called Wuhan 400 is causing a deadly epidemic in Dean Koontz's thriller published in 1981.
This is so strange. This is a kind of prophecy! In Dean Koontz's 1981 thriller Eyes of Darkness, a virus called Wuhan-400 is being developed in Wuhan, China to be used as a biological weapon, but ultimately spirals out of control.
And in another strange coincidence, one of the only laboratories in China that is allowed to work with the deadliest viruses in the entire world is in Wuhan and it has sequenced the real coronavirus that we are currently fighting.
An eerie coincidence?
In Eyes of Darkness, a grieving mother, Christina Evans, sets out to find out if her son Danny died while on a tourist trip, or if suspicious reports suggest he is still alive.
She ultimately tracks him down to a military facility where he is being held after he was accidentally infected with artificial microorganisms created at a research facility in Wuhan.
Now read this excerpt from the book:
“Around this time, a Chinese scientist named Li Chen moved to the United States, carrying a diskette containing data on China's most important and dangerous new biological weapon of the past decade. They call it Wuhan 400 because it was developed in their RDNA lab. near the city of Wuhan”.
