# Firestarter

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- Book: [Firestarter](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king/firestarter) ([Firestarter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king/firestarter.md))
- Authors: [Stephen King](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king)
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- ISBN: 978-01-4242-784-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-04-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Firestarter is King's classic thriller about a young girl with a terrifying gift. You're a firestarter honey . . . just one big zippo lighter. 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. 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 . . . Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising . . . and menacing.