According to The Guardian:
The bookselling giant Waterstone's yesterday pulled advertising for a new novel about suicide bombers creating mayhem in London.
The book, called Incendiary, was published on Thursday, the day all-too real bombs hit London.
The premise of the novel, set a few years in the future, is a suicide bomber attack on Arsenal's new stadium, a couple of miles from King's Cross.
Pictures promoting the novel show plumes of smoke curling above London's skyline. The wording reads "a massive terrorist attack ... launches this unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel".
First time author, Chris Cleave, must have though that fate had played a particularly nasty trick on him! Or will the coincidence boost sales?
Postscript:
The author shares his views on the timing of the book here. "... something yesterday taught me was the difference between imagination and experience" he says.
4 comments:
Odd, but this seems similar to a book written by Morgan Robertson's "Futility", which was written 14 years before the Titanic that in the book the name of the ship is called "Titan"
this is not the first time this has happened. I remember something similar when 9/11 struck and the book (can't remember which) was withdrawn.
Synchronicity - or something more?
i think its more to coincidentally.
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