The fireman : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

The fireman : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Joe Hill

Creator

• Hill, Joe

Author

• Hill, Joe

Subject

• Electronic books
• End of the world -- Fiction
• Epidemics -- Fiction
• Horror fiction
• New Hampshire -- Fiction
• Nurses -- Fiction
• Apocalyptic thrillers
• Survival -- Fiction
• Vigilantes -- Fiction
• Spores -- Fiction
• Combustion, Spontaneous human -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Horror fiction
• Electronic books
• Apocalyptic thrillers

Language

eng

Summary

From the award-winning, New York TimesThe 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

Cataloging source

MMI

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3608.I4342

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries