![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Vicky and Andy married, their genes produced Charlie and her wild talent for pyrokinesis: even as a baby in her crib, Charlie would start fires when upset and, later on, once set her mother's hands on fire. Charlie's parents Vicky and Andy were once college guinea pigs for drug experiments by The Shop, a part of the supersecret Department of Scientific Intelligence, and were given a hyperpowerful hallucinogen which affected their chromosomes and left each with strange powers of mental transference and telekinesis. She looks and a thing pops into flame-a teddy bear, a nasty man's shoes, or (by novel's end) steel walls, whole houses, and stables and crowds of government villains. As in The Shining, the psi-carrier is a child, an eight-year-old girl named Charlie but instead of foresight or hindsight, Charlie has firestarting powers. An improvement over The Dead Zone, with King returning to his most tried-and-true blueprint. ![]()
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