Book | The Fireman

The fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No 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.

Harper 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.

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. 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.

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.

Author(s): Joe Hill
First release: 2016
Shorts collection: No
Dedication: ‘For Ethan John King, who burns bright. Your dad loves you’
Nomination(s): Yes
Movie: No

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US editions:

9780062439970 ARC Paperback William Morrow 2015 –	9780062200631 Hardcover William Morrow 2016 –	9780062200631 Presigned Hardcover William Morrow 2016 –	9780062565846 Presigned Indigo Hardcover William Morrow 2016
9780062565839 Presigned Books-A-Million Hardcover William Morrow 2016	9780062565822 Presigned Barnes & Noble Hardcover William Morrow 2016	9780062565334 International edition Paperback William Morrow 2016	9780062200648 Paperback William Morrow 2016 –
9780062661036 Paperback William Morrow 2017	9780062440235 Luxe paperback Harper Luxe 2016

Information about edition(s):
· Cemetery Dance sold 1,500 copies with a bookplate signed by Joe Hill with and without slipcase of the regular 1st/st hardcover.
· The regular 1st/1st hardcover was available with tippen-in signed page too, in some the page is put in upside down.
· Indigo, Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble had tipped-in copies with different ISBN’s.

PS Publishing limited edition:

9781786360427 Hardcover PS Publishing 2016	9781786360427 Slipcase – –	9781786360434 Hardcover PS Publishing 2016

Information about edition(s):
· The limited was made in two formats: Slipcased and signed by Joe Hill of #974 plus #14 lettered and #4 subscriptions copies. Original price of £60.00 is blacked out on some. And #26 lettered in traycase signed by Joe and David Stoupakis. Inluded are two deleted chapters and comes with UK exclusive preview booklet and ‘Visit Camp Wyndham’ postcard.

UK editions:

UK proof Paperback Gollancz 2016	9780575130715 Hardcover Gollancz 2016	9781785172991 Presigned Hardcover Gollancz 2016	ISBN Presigned Hardcover Waterstones Gollancz 2016
9780575130722 Paperback Gollancz 2016	978147320954 Paperback Gollancz 2017	9780575130715 Hardcover Gollancz/Goldsboro 2016

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The story starts as follows:
Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school.
Schools were closed in Boston and some other parts of Massachusetts, but here in <new Hamphire they were still open. There had been cases in New Hampshire, but only a few. Harpe had heard that half a dozen patients were being held in a secure wing of Concord Hospital, looked after by a medical team outfitted in full-body protective grear, every nurse armed with a fire extinguisher.

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