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. 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.. . .
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 .
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.
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. 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. . .
At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too.
To Jakob\'s dismay, Harper wants to live--at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term.
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.
Now she\'s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin.
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.
There is no antidote.
Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere.
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.
The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton.
A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle.
Stay cool.
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated.
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
