in the air, building up around Charlie
like an electric charge. The hair on his
arms suddenly began to stir and move,
likekelp in an invisible tide. He looked
down at her and saw her face, so small,
now so strange.
It's coming, he thought helplessly.
It's coming, oh my God, it really is."
In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participate in a drug experiment
run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. One year later
they marry. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy
bear on fire. . . by looking at it.
Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Her parents
have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything--
toys, clothes, even people--aflame. But The Shop knows about and wants
this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie
and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the
streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. An once they get her
they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into
developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. What
they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of
of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge.
Stephen King 1980 |
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