![]() Twitter user Nick Hinton, who first posted a screenshot of the passage from the novel earlier this month, said: 'A Dean Koontz novel written in 1981 predicted the outbreak of the coronavirus!' One character in the novel says: 'They call the stuff ''Wuhan-400'' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside the city of Wuhan.' ![]() The characters explain that the Chinese intended to use it 'to wipe out a city or a country' without the need for 'expensive decontamination'. ![]() In The Eyes Of Darkness, Wuhan-400 is a bioweapon virus that has a fatality rate of 100 percent within 12 hours. Now the Amazon Charts for the week of Mashow Koontz's nearly 40-year-old book as the number three most sold book of the week, behind Alex North's The Whisper Man and Hilary Mantel's The Mirror and the Light. ![]() A Dean Koontz thriller novel about a killer virus that started in Wuhan has become a bestseller amid rising fears over the spread of the deadly coronavirus.įans of the author insisted that his 1981 work The Eyes of Darkness, which describes a virus named 'Wuhan-400' after the Chinese city it originated in, predicted the outbreak of COVID-19, which was first identified in the same city. ![]()
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