# Firestarter - Paperback

by **Stephen King** (Author)

**Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1** **_New York Times_** **bestseller--now 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. 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...

### Author Biography

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes _If It Bleeds_, _The Institute_, _Elevation_, _The Outsider_, _Sleeping Beauties_ (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: _End of Watch_, _Finders Keepers_, and _Mr. Mercedes_ (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel _11/22/63_ was named a top ten book of 2011 by _The New York Times Book Review_ and won the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works _The Dark Tower_, _It_, _Pet Sematary_, and _Doctor Sleep_ are the basis for major motion pictures, with _It_ now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

**Number of Pages:** 512

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** December 11, 2018

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Firestarter

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.8

**Point Value:** 24

## Details

- **Price:** 18.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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