Apart from the mild flurry of excitement over Wuhan-400, I found the book ho-hum! Perhaps my expectations were greater. It's a competently written book that manages to fall flat, despite having multiple strong elements. My first Koontz was much better, and thus I read another. Unless one believes the other theory of Chinese eating bats who transmitted the disease.) One wonders if Wuhan and its bio "stuff" has been an "open secret" in certain circles!? Alas! One is never likely to know what happened there!
(It was American work being carried out in China's Wuhan lab, from where the virus is supposed to have escaped. Due to the end of the Cold War, the origin of the bioweapon was changed to the Chinese city of Wuhan and it was renamed Wuhan-400 for the 1989 edition onward, prompting speculation in 2020 that Koontz had somehow predicted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)." I also marvelled at mentions of a bioweapon Wuhan-400 and looked it up, here's what Wiki says: "The novel mentions a bioweapon that in earlier editions is named Gorki-400 after the Soviet city of Gorki in which it was created. After over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and over 450 million sales of his work, one can overlook a book not reaching one's expectations. Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". Koontz has used a number of pseudonyms eg "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. These could have given a very strong book. a medley of things, viz a "showgirl" turning into a successful director/ producer of a musical, the setting of Las Vegas/ casino, strong emotions like mother's love that transcends death, deep government conspiracy, high octane (not really) chase, intelligence agents, telekinesis and telepathy, snow clad mountains and hidden labs, etc.
Hence, the filmy nature of the book, i.e. The book was conceived as a tele series, which never saw the light of day. It's an Okayish book, that seemed like the script of a movie! I wasn't too far away from facts.
The book was published in 1981 by #Koontz, under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.
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