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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. 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.
- Sales Rank: #6278 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-05-17
- Released on: 2016-05-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of May 2016: I admit, when I hit a saggy part in a story, I do skip ahead to see if the plot will pick up again. At no point in Joe Hill’s doorstop-weight novel did I have that urge, for each and every page had me entranced. Set in New Hampshire right about now, The Fireman opens with a man spontaneously combusting outside the office of school nurse Harper Grayson. He’s not the first victim of Draco incendia trychophyton, the spore responsible for this transformation, but he’s the signal that Dragonscale has spread to Harper’s small town. It also spreads to Harper soon after she realizes she’s pregnant. Highly contagious and 100 percent fatal, Dragonscale soon plunges the world into chaos. (An oddly affective moment is when Harper logs onto Google and finds, instead of the search engine, the words “Goodby.”) But Hill smartly focuses on Harper and her attempts at survival, keeping the stakes small but extremely personal as the uninfected hunt down and murder the infected, supposedly to protect the rest of the town but really to indulge in sociopathic tendencies now unleashed. The Fireman starts with a hot burn, simmers as Harper joins a group of infected hiding in a summer camp, and then heats up again as the near-utopian community ruptures. Hill weaves questions about the power of leadership, group-think, love, catastrophe, and family into the plot. His smartest move is to give no clear-cut answers to these questions, making The Fireman more substantial and real than a typical apocalyptic thriller. And his humdinger of an ending provides just the right closure. --Adrian Liang
From Publishers Weekly
In Hill's superb supernatural thriller, the world is falling apart in a maelstrom of flame and fury. A spore dubbed Dragonscale infects people, draws patterns on their skin, and eventually makes them spontaneously combust—and it's rapidly spreading. School nurse Harper Grayson volunteers at a local hospital in Concord, N.H., until it burns down. Soon she discovers that not only is she infected but she's also pregnant. As the beautiful filigreed markings of Dragonscale start to flourish on her body, she vows to do anything to bring her baby safely into the world. Her husband, Jakob, doesn't want the baby and attacks Harper when he realizes she wants to keep it. Harper flees and encounters John Rookwood, a near-mythical figure known as the Fireman. He takes her to Camp Wyndham, where the infected have learned to control and harness what they call the Bright—the flames that smolder just beneath their skin. Harper finds purpose there, but Jakob has found a purpose too: he's joined the Cremation Crews, brutal marauders who kill the infected on sight. When the peace of the camp is threatened, Harper, John, and their friends band together. The good-hearted Harper is a captivating heroine, the peaceful eye in a storm of evil that threatens to harm everyone she holds dear, and it's impossible not to root for her. Hill has followed 2013's NOS4A2 with a tremendous, heartrending epic of bravery and love set in a fully realized and terrifying apocalyptic world, where hope lies in the simplest of gestures and the fullest of hearts. (May)
Review
“Original and gripping, a page-turner.” (George R. R. Martin on THE FIREMAN)
“[A] superb supernatural thriller . . . a tremendous, heartrending epic of bravery and love set in a fully realized and terrifying apocalyptic world, where hope lies in the simplest of gestures and the fullest of hearts.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) on THE FIRMAN)
“Hill has a talent for depicting fascinating characters caught in terrible situations. . . . With a full cast of characters and multiple story lines to keep the reader hooked, Hill’s enthralling fourth thriller hits another home run.” (Library Journal (starred review) on THE FIREMAN)
“Joe Hill has always been good, but he’s created something incandescent here, soaring and original. He’s a master storyteller who writes with fire in his veins.” (Lauren Beukes, author of BROKEN MONSTERS on THE FIREMAN)
“Fascinating and utterly engaging, this novel is sure to leave readers wanting more. One thing is for certain, however. After reading this book, readers will never hear Christmas carols in quite the same way again.” (Library Journal (starred review) on NOS4A2)
“[An] undeniably readable work.” (Booklist (starred review) on NOS4A2)
“Read it with the lights on and your children locked in a closet.” (BookRiot.com on NOS4A2)
[Hill]’s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun.” (Kirkus on HEART-SHAPED BOX)
“[A] wrenching and effective ghost story . . . reads like good, early King mixed with some of the edgier splatterpunk sensibilities of David J. Schow . . . [HEART-SHAPED BOX] has genuinely touching emotional moments as well as action-packed confrontations with the dead.” (Library Journal (starred review) on HEART-SHAPED BOX)
“A genuinely scary novel filled with people you care about; the kind of book that still stays in your mind after you’ve turned over the final page. I loved it unreservedly.” (Neil Gaiman, author of THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE on HEART-SHAPED BOX)
“[HORNS is] a creepy murder mystery, a tragic love triangle, and a sweetly wistful coming-of-age story. It’s the kind of book that has you laughing on one page, crying on another and making sure the doors and windows are safely locked on a third.” (Miami Herald on HORNS)
“[Horns is] devilishly good. . . . Hill is a terrific writer with a great imagination. He has a special talent for taking us and his characters to very weird places.” (USA Today on HORNS)
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114 of 128 people found the following review helpful.
Masterful (and I don't use that word lightly)
By Cheryl Stout
I read and review a LOT of books. Very rarely am I lucky enough to read one that figuratively punches me in the gut. I've held off a couple of days from reviewing THE FIREMAN because I wanted to think about the story and the review I was going to do on it.
I LOVED THIS BOOK! I was lucky enough to get an Advanced Reading Copy of it but I have already pre-ordered a hardcover for my library. I actually might order two - one to keep in pristine condition on my library shelf and another that I already plan on re-reading over and over. And that, in itself, is rare. I read so many books that hardly ever do I re-read one.
My favorite genre of books is horror and even more appealing to me is the sub-genre of post-apocalyptic/dystopian books. So I knew I was probably going to like this tale.
Plus I've read Joe Hill's other books (except for his graphic novels) and I enjoyed them.
But this is a post-apocalyptic book that I loved as much as ANY I've ever read. And Joe Hill has taken a giant leap forward with his writing prowess.
- I loved the characters. Harper, the nurse who models herself off of Mary Poppins, and John, the Fireman, are my favorites but author Hill brings the whole incredible cast of characters to life on these pages - from the innocent to the maniacal. The most important "character" is Draco incendia trychophyton, or Dragonscale - wildly imaginative and deadly.
- Most of the story takes place in New Hampshire and I could visualize the settings clearly.
- The storyline - I'm not going into any detail on the story. Everyone that reads or listens to this book should experience it firsthand with no spoilers. Set aside a weekend or longer if you need it and immerse yourself in this world that Joe Hill has created.
This book has made it into my top 10 books of all time. So, if you couldn't tell, again - I LOVED THIS BOOK. I can't think of anything I didn't love about it.
Thank you to William Morrow Books through Edelweiss for sending me a copy of the book in exchange for my honest review.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A great premise in dire need of an editor.
By RileyC
The premise of The Fireman is an interesting take on the apocalyptic plague theme, unfortunately Hill spends way too much time on pointless plot threads at the expense of his premise. If the book was only two or three hundred pages long, I could understand the lack of detail about some aspects of the Dragonscale, but at 768 pages, the only plausible excuse is that Hill is a respected writer who was on a deadline and the publisher didn't have the time to edit the story before printing it.
A good editor would have cut the camp thief story line which was a lame attempt at bringing mystery into an already intriguing plot and instead had Hill focus on the Fireman's control of the Dragonscale at key points in the story. The Fireman's ability is an interesting idea that deserved deeper exploration; how did he learn to do it, can everyone who is infected transform themselves with training etc.?
Another problem is the main character. Harper is portrayed as a such a selfless giving person in the first part of the book that once she learns how to control the Dragonscale it seems unlikely that she would be content to hunker down with people she doesn't really trust or care for. It would have been a natural progression for her Mary Poppins quoting character to go from not feeling like she was contributing much as a volunteer at the hospital to helping the infected learn how to control the virus and thus survive. As for her pregnancy giving her a reason to shy away from danger, Hill doesn't seem to have a problem with having her crawl into a drainpipe to save people she doesn't know or climbing on a roof for no reason. At times it seems like Hill forgot she was pregnant and therefore, so did his characters. Also, if she's such a caring person, why don't we hear more about her family? A few lines about her father's birthday bring to light the fact that she even has family but at that point in the book the reader is left wondering why she hasn't thought about them before. Her father is briefly mentioned at another point in the story, but had Hill not even brought up her family the reader could have easily assumed her parents had died before the outbreak of the virus. An editor would have red lined that thin attempt at providing backstory on Harper.
An editor would have also told Hill to knock it off with the heavy handed foreshadowing. Every chapter ends with a line that gives away too much information. It's annoying and at one point so unrealistic it's ridiculous. There are several other problems with this book, but it's hard to mention them without giving away too much of the story, so if you still plan on reading this bloated mess, consider yourself warned that it's not worth your time.
Spoiler Alert:
The love story between Harper and the Fireman was forced and unnecessary. So much of the story involved Harper and the people at Camp Wyndham that I began to wonder why the book was even called The Fireman. Additionally, too many of the scenes where Harper and the Fireman were together, involved the Fireman tending the stove containing the soul of his beloved Sara. We're supposed to believe that he feels such guilt over her death that he can't let go of what remains of her in the fire and yet he lays with Harper in full view of the stove? The book would have been better without the obligatory love story between the two main characters.
In the last chapter, everyone is aware that Harper is in labor as they're floating in the ocean, but when they were pulled onto the boat they forgot until the baby was practically laying on the deck. Renee, in particular who asked Don countless questions seemed to have forgotten which seems strange for such an empathetic character.
The chapter that ended with the revelation that Father Story was dead was a poor attempt at tricking the reader with foreshadowing. People do not tell you someone has died and then describe how it happened only to reveal at the end of their monologue that the person was revived. If they did you'd beat the crap out of them.
The fact that none of the characters seemed concerned that Martha Quinn's Island was a trap was a prime example of an author not giving his readers any credit. If it was supposed to be a surprise, Hill must think we're stupid. Certainly his characters dropped a few IQ points when they began their journey to the island and didn't take precautions in case it was a set-up.
As this is the first novel by Joe Hill I've read, I have to believe his other novels are worth the hype, but I still plan on reading several other books in my constantly growing stack before I pick up another one of his.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Read it!!
By B. Hayes
Joe Hill is definitely one of my favorite authors. I've only read The Fireman, Nos4a2, and about half of 20th Century Ghosts. I plan on reading his other novels in the near future. Although, I have seen the Horns movie (shame on me for not reading it first).
I love how Joe Hill uses New Hampshire in his books. That's an immediate add to my TBR list. I am a NH native, still live here, so it's awesome to read about places that I know and have been.
Anyway, the characters, plot, and setting are greatly developed, I was able to feel like I was there with them. I literally went outside to make sure the world wasn't on fire. More than once. I think I even had a dream about this book. I kept confusing the book with reality, it felt so real reading it. That's how I know it's a great book and it's very well written. I recommend this book to anyone! Seriously though, it is a fantastic book. Read it.
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