Other editions of book Firestarter

Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror...First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers.Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter.Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to “act normal.”Now the government wants its brainchild back—for its own insane ends.

From the author of THE SHINING, CARRIE and THE DEAD ZONE, this is Stephen King's most mesmerizing and menacing novel yet...It is the story of a sinister government agency, a fteful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. As PLAYBOY said, 'King does this better than anyone else. We finished the book about three non-stop hours after we picked it up.

From the world's bestselling author, Stephen King, comes a tale of genetic exploration gone to hellfire! Young Charlie McGee is a very special girl. The result of scientific experimentation on her parents, she has the ability create fires wherever and whenever she chooses, by force of will alone. On the run from sinister government agents with her telekenetic father, she only wants to forget her monstrous abilities, and live a normal life. When the pair are captured, Charlie must decide between saving her father and using her fiery powers at the whim of a government only interested in using her...as a weapon!