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William Morrow
May 2016
On Sale: May 17, 2016
768 pages ISBN: 0062200631 EAN: 9780062200631 Kindle: B013C5M08O Hardcover / e-Book
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Horror
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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