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Firestarter

A chilling classic from the No. 1 bestseller

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Firestarter

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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About this listen

 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.

(P)2010 Penguin Audiobooks©1980 Stephen King Adventure Crime Fiction Science Fiction Supernatural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Exciting

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Critic reviews

Stephen King's finest novel yet...the most tightly plotted of King's chillers, it is also the most terrifying
One of the few horror writers who can truly make the flesh creep
King's imagination is vast
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Marvelous story well read but the ending was a bit lame after all the excitement.



Lame

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The first Stephen King tale I ever read. I still enjoy revisiting what is a simple but thoroughly enjoyable story

Lost count how many times I have enjoyed this story

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Brilliantly Narrated by Dennis Boutsikaris, fantastically writing by the amazing Stephen King, was hard to put it down :)

Brilliant!!!

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I've seen the original film but never read the book, as a fan of Stephen King book's I thought I would give this one a try. I have to say I wasn't disappointed and say it's a great audio book, I listened for the full of the book in one go, that's how good it was.

fantastic story that age's well.

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Great novel. Moved along at a good pace and the characters were well defined.
Very well narrated

Excellent

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