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. Issued with a dustjacket and price of 13.95. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. Firestarter (426 pages - © 1980) Publisher: Viking First Edition: 100,000 1st Edition Cover A first edition of 100,000 copies. 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 McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment. "Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. And why wouldnt they Its early King, when (collective wisdom has it) he was still writing exciting, original novels, playing in the ballparks of.
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