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A multi-stranded historical epic set in China in 1937, when Wuhan stood alone against a whirlwind of war and violence. Everyone's heard of Wuhan in connection with Covid-19. But 80 years ago it was equally famous as the first place on earth to decisively defeat fascism. In 1937 Japan invaded...

As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home – Male or female, 16-50 years old, unafraid of ghosts - and decides to apply. He quickly realises that the official death figures bear no relation to what is happening in the local crematoria.

Gleich nach dem Ausbruch der Corona-Epidemie reist der Bürgerjournalist Li in das Epizentrum der Katastrophe. "Weil er keine Angst vor Gespenstern hat", so die Stellenanzeige, findet er einen Job im Krematorium. Schnell begreift er, dass die offiziellen Opferzahlen nicht stimmen. Doch der kurze Augenblick, in dem er glaubt, die Wahrheit sagen zu dürfen, vergeht über Nacht: Er wird entdeckt, verfolgt und dokumentiert im Internet live, wie er brutal verhaftet wird.

This is a noir novel looking at the dark side of contemporary life, with romance, love, and fear amid the very real horrors of the present and the probability of the nightmare to come as Western civilization collapses. Jasmine, a budding artist, and her new boyfriend, Colin, become inadvertently involved in a terrorist/hostage situation in London. Kidnapped at gunpoint, Jasmine is smuggled to Iraq where she becomes an unwilling ISIS bride. Eventually she ends up as a concubine in Saudi Arabia. The Western authorities show no interest in trying to locate her.