Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing. Henry Award for his story The Man in the Black Suit, and is the 2003 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker awards, and the O. He has written more than forty books and two hundred short stories. What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge. Stephen King lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. Firestarter is the ninth book published by Stephen King it is his eighth novel, and the sixth novel under his own name. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything-toys, clothes, even people-aflame.īut The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed 'ultimate weapon.' Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore.

Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange.

The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. 'Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge.

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