The eyes of darkness
The eyes of darkness (original: " The Eyes of Darkness ") is a psychological thriller by Dean R. Koontz , which this published in 1981 under the pseudonym "Leigh Nichols" in Pocket Books Verlag.
The German first publication took place in 1988 in Wilhelm Heyne Verlag no longer under the pseudonym, but as a book by Dean R. Koontz. In May 2020 the thriller was reissued by Ullstein Verlag under the title Die Augen der Finsternis .
content
Tina Evans is a successful woman in Las Vegas . She sends her son on a camping trip. Everyone involved dies on the excursion. But Evans is haunted by terrible nightmares that their dead son Danny is still alive. Out of nowhere, she gets messages on chalkboards, printed words from printers and other “signs” that say her son is not dead. Christina Evans and her boyfriend Elliot Stryker set out to find out what could possibly have happened the day their son "died". During the investigation, they discover that their boy has been kidnapped by the government and is being used for scientific purposes in a secret laboratory. She can finally free him.
Trivia
The novel also writes about one of China's most important and dangerous biological weapons. It is called Gorki-400 in the American first edition, and Wuhan-400 in new editions from 1989 because it was developed in laboratories outside the city of Wuhan. Some media picked up on this in spring 2020 because they saw it as anticipation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus . However, other media point out that this is not the case, since details of the virus in the novel are completely different from the actual corona virus and the year 2020 was manipulated with the help of a copy from a completely different novel. In some reports, in addition to the excerpt from Die Augen der Dunkelheit , which vaguely describes the bioweapon, an excerpt from Sylvia Browne's book End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World was copied, which suggested that this prediction applied to Year 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ISBN 978-3-548-06414-7
- ↑ a b “They call the stuff Wuhan-400” In: blick.ch
- ↑ Fever dreams: did author Dean Koontz really predict coronavirus? In: theguardian.com
- ↑ Viral creeps before virus prophecy. In: wienerzeitung.at