Firestarter
by:
Stephen King (author)
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic “terrifying…gripping” (Miami Herald) #1 New York Times bestseller—“his highest farenheit reading yet (Time)!"Get out. Get out quickly. She's never done anything like this before and I don't know if she can stop." Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson...
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Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic “terrifying…gripping” (Miami Herald) #1 New York Times bestseller—“his highest farenheit reading yet (Time)!"Get out. Get out quickly. She's never done anything like this before and I don't know if she can stop." 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. 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. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen—pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary...including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own....
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN:
9781501143793 (1501143794)
ASIN: 1501143794
Publish date: 2016-05-03
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1980-09-21)The popularity of "occult" novels haunts the science fiction community. We of all people are expected to pay serious attention to stories based on semiliterate misreadings of religious apocrypha. Not based, mind you, on either testament of the Bible, but on superstitions...
There is a lot to like in this story. The concept has always fascinated me, especially given the veneer of plausibility as the US government does have a well-documented history of unethical human experimentation and has had programs investigating psychic phenomena. So the setup, and the description ...
Charlie ist ein kleines Mädchen und kann allein durch ihre Gedanken Feuer entfachen. Einst versprach sie ihren Eltern, dass sie es niemals wieder machen wird. Doch was, wenn ihr Leben in Gefahr ist?Mit „Feuerkind“ hält man einen interessanten King-Roman in den den Händen, der sich mit geheimen Exper...
Inhaltsangabe Das Mädchen Charlie kann allein mit Gedanken Feuersbrünste entfachen. Ihre Eltern verlangen, dass sie diese Macht niemals einsetzt. Aber gilt das auch, wenn das eigene Leben, das Leben der Familie bedroht wird? Meine Meinung Endlich habe ich mal wieder einen King gelesen. Die Gesch...
Charlie is a firestarter. No secret there. Most people have seen the movie and kind of the know the story already. She is the daughter of Andy and Vicky. two persons who participated in a government sponsored experiment to trigger X-men ability in subjects. They both have powers, but weak powe...