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The Fireman: A Novel

by Joe Hill
The Fireman: A Novel

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ISBN13: 9780062200631
ISBN10: 0062200631
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The Fireman is a super-fun, well-executed novel. It really stands out in a sea of post-apocalyptic fiction (with just the right blend of horror, humor, and heart), and this cast of characters is my favorite of Joe Hill's so far. I couldn't wait to see how it ended, but I didn't want it to be over, and that is a pretty magical feeling. Recommended By Emily F., Powells.com

The Fireman is utterly fantastic (in both senses of the word). Joe Hill conveys an organic, inventive, comprehensive, and incredibly compelling vision of the possibilities of the near future. Full of beautiful and surprising imagery and incisive explorations of human nature, it is by far Hill's best book to date. Recommended By Jill O., Powells.com

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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.

The fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live — at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too...if she can live long enough to deliver the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads — armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted...and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life — and that of her unborn child — goes up in smoke.

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"Joe Hill has always been good, but he’s created something incandescent here, soaring and original. He’s a master storyteller who writes with fire in his veins." Lauren Beukes, author of Broken Monsters 

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"Hill has a talent for depicting fascinating characters caught in terrible situations....With a full cast of characters and multiple story lines to keep the reader hooked, Hill’s enthralling fourth thriller hits another home run." Library Journal (Starred Review)

About the Author

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a six-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), and In the Tall Grass (Netflix).

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So excited to read this!

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ddoyle612 , May 15, 2016 (view all comments by ddoyle612)
I am so looking forward to reading Joe Hill's new book. It's so great that there is another writer who scares me. I hear that his father is famous too, what does he do?

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Lilchippy1345 , April 24, 2016 (view all comments by Lilchippy1345)
I really enjoyed Locke and key.

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ddoyle612 , April 24, 2016 (view all comments by ddoyle612)
Joe Hill is my second favorite writer, Stephen King is my first.

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ISBN:
9780062200631
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
05/17/2016
Publisher:
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC
Pages:
768
Height:
1.80IN
Width:
6.40IN
Author:
Joe Hill
Media Run Time:
B
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Popular Fiction-Contemporary Thrillers

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