I have read so many novels containing assassination and terrorist scenarios that I'm amazed none of them have actually been carried out.
I mean, there are point-by-point instructions. Sheesh.
Here are just a few titles:
THE FINAL JIHAD by Martin Keating (this one is really, really scary)
THE DEVIL'S TEARDROP by Jeffrey Deaver
MEMORIAL DAY by Vince Flynn
MARK OF THE ASSASSIN by Daniel Silva
About four years ago I started writing a thriller novel of my own, the hero being an Israeli ZAKA volunteer. The first scene took place in Jerusalem, with a terrorist bombing of a popular tourist restaurant. I wrote this in Feb. or March 2001. Then in August that same year, the Sbarro's terror attack happened. I put this manuscript away and haven't looked at it since because it scares me too much to read it. (And I never showed it to anyone)
I wonder how much interesting fiction never sees the light of day.
"In the latter days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and the young men will see visions, and the old men will dream dreams and the daughters will prophesy"
It is no surprise that many authors are prescient regarding the days events, even the experience you had as an author in which the day's events occured almost as you had written them into being.
The Holy Spirit works in the world to convict men of sin, it is no surprise that increasingly, even in fiction authors seem to be writing of things that actually come to pass.
A couple of more classical examples would be those Jules Verne and HG Wells who wrote of laser weapons and nuclear power and even space travel decades before even the sciences had developed sufficiently to begin to develop such concepts.
You may not necessarily be religious and you may not agree completely with me....but at least agree that there seems to be latent gift that some have of being able to unconsciously extrapolate and cogently combine the trends and movements of the era into fictionalized tomes that end up being uncomfortable reflections of true reality!