Firestarter

SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis. As a result of scientific experimentation on her parents, Charlie McGee has the ability to start fires by thought power. On the run from sinister government agents with her telekenetic father, she only wants to live a normal life. When they are captured, Charlie must decide between saving her father and using her powers at the whim of a government only interested in using her as a weapon Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. ---------- Also contained in: [Ominbus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25080326W) A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. It is a gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy.. Stephen King's classic thriller about a young girl with a terrifying gift, now reissued in the stunning new graphic cover style "Daddy, I'm tired," the little girl in the red pants and the green blouse said fretfully.