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The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of writer as unwitting prophet?
Thriller writer’s 1981 book The Eyes of Darkness features a Chinese lab in Wuhan that makes a virus to be used as a biological weapon. Civilians contract it and become terribly ill. He wasn’t prophesying anything, was he?
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