{"product_id":"the-fireman-9780062200648","title":"The Fireman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHeart-Shaped Box\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe fireman is coming. Stay cool.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. 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. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she's discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. 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. To Jakob's dismay, Harper wants to live--at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConvinced 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. 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. 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. 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 . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHill, Joe:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoe Hill is the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Fireman\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHorns\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHeart-Shaped Box\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eStrange Weather\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections \u003cem\u003eFull Throttle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e20th Century Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e. He is also the Eisner Award-winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, \u003cem\u003eLocke \u0026amp; Key\u003c\/em\u003e. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including \u003cem\u003eNOS4A2 \u003c\/em\u003e(AMC), \u003cem\u003eLocke \u0026amp; Key\u003c\/em\u003e (Netflix), and \u003cem\u003eIn the Tall Grass (\u003c\/em\u003eNetflix).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50608362422546,"sku":"9780062200648","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cc2520ff-69ff-4353-bd46-c0f5865a8ed8.jpg?v=1737291786","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fireman-9780062200648","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}