The origin of the virus that causes COVID-19, the biggest health crisis in generations, continues to be a source of scientific contentious debate as well as geopolitical dispute. The entire world has been victimized by the pandemic and has the right to know exactly what happened.

And until the mechanisms triggering the origin of the pandemic are fully charted, a new pandemic happing by the exact same mechanisms continues to be a major threat. Therefore, it is of uttermost urgency to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible and it’s a race against time.

This book provides an insight to what happened when the WHO on behalf of the world’s citizens sent an international expert team to Wuhan in 2021 to unravel what happened there in late 2019. It will provide the reader with an understanding of the clues and the scientific detective work undertaken, leading towards an understanding of the true origin of the pandemic SARS-Coronavirus-2 and the barriers and challenges then and ahead.

And finally, an insight into what questions remain to be answered to get those final pieces of the puzzle?. The book is written as a detective story unfolding during the stressfull events in Wuhan and has relevance for all readers with an interest in mysteries based on real life events.

The book received top reviews by Danish media, Danish top scientists, and literature critics when it was first published in Danish in November 2021. .