We've all heard I am sure of Morgan Robertson's futility which featured the sinking of a cruise liner called Titan.
And Tom Clancy's debt of honour had a rogue bandit crashing a plane deliberately into to Capitol.
in each case long before the real life events they mirrored.
i am rereading some harry bosch books by michael connolley and Black Echo has an almost exact roadmap of the hatton garden job. Including the bank holiday weekend and stealing loads to cover up the real purpose. I had forgotten this. A good 13 years before the real life heist.
SPOOKY!
(please keep your sniffy "literature, fnah fnah you think that's literature" pseuderisms to your sad little selves: predicted and pre-pwnd)
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Wang surely the best is the Dean Koontz book that predicted the vuvu. Twilight eyes I think - mentioned pandemic from lab in wuhan. Book was from 80s I think.
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Buzz Windrip ≈ Donald Trump.
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Been a very long time since i read dean koontz old chap. Like more than 30 years ago! Used to be in my bookshelf next to the shaun hutsons
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The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré , 1996 seven years before the WMD myth and invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Creating a false narrative by telling MI6 (and also the CIA indirectly) what they wanted to hear - and for cash - leading to a US invasion of said country.
Tragi-comic.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/05/theres-something-out-there-spread-of-disease
I misremembered- it was the Eyes of Darkness! He's a pretty good writer Wang albeit overtly GOP. Last book I read of his was few months ago so slightly more recent than you!
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Tailor of Panama itself preceded, in spirit, by Our man in Havana, by Graham Greene.
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I stopped reading Koontz when the little digs against inclusiveness and the like started to annoy me.
Now Michael Connelly - one of my favourite writers of modern times. Thriller writers like him can, especially in a lifetime of work, explore all sorts of areas of the human psyche that 'literary' writers don't normally look at. Two more such I would recommend - especially to anyone who likes Connelly - are Robert Crais (who unbelievably has been around so long he used to write scripts for The Rockford files) and Karin Slaughter. Slaughter's books were a slow start but her Will Trent series became mighty. (Forget the TV series, that looks shit.)
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