Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen-pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them-manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own.'-Back cover.īook Synopsis Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller-soon to be a major motion picture!Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. Now the mericless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen - pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them, manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. and menacing.About the Book 'Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing.

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. 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. 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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