There’s a heavy sense of paranoia that’s backed up by portraying The Shop as being as painfully dogged in their pursuit of the walking weapons of mass destruction as you’d imagine any organization like the CIA or NSA would be.
What’s sad is that it’s very possible that this is what would actually happen, even today. It’s characters and scenarios like these that make for truly disgusting villains and truly oppressive drama. While the perspective of John Rainbird, a scarred and crazed Native American assassin, is its own kind of twisted delight, the truly unsettling bad guys are the ones who use their power and authority to justify their increasingly vicious actions every step of the way. The fact that the villains of Firestarter aren’t supernatural monsters, but humans acting on their own selfish desires makes the book’s content all the more horrifying. Nevertheless, the tension and suspense is always hanging over the story like a shade.Īnother thing King is well-known for is his uncanny ability to terrorize his readers in endlessly creative ways.
Though to be honest, you start to get the idea the first few times Charlie starts fires. I’m starting to notice that throughout a lot of his books he will frequently acknowledge the fact that the story is building to something dreadful that’s going to happen, without explicitly detailing what that could be. King is a talented writer, capable of getting to the raw nerve with his characters, exercising awareness and care in his plotting. So the book was considerably better than the movie, which I have often found to be the case. Likewise, we discover what someone as young and powerful as Charlie will do to defend those she loves. This is exactly the sort of find The Shop has been hoping for, and we discover just how far they will go to claim her and use her for their own devices. Their daughter Charlie is a more fragile case: she can create fires with her mind, through her emotions.
Two of them happened to be Andy and his future wife Vicky, who ended up with psychic abilities. Years ago, The Shop tested an experimental serum called Lot Six on several people looking to earn some quick money. On the other side are the ones who are chasing them: The Shop, a shadow agency that’s very existence depends on capturing Charlie and Andy by any means. On one side we are introduced to seven-year old Charlie McGee and her father Andy, both victims of a heartless government conspiracy. At the outset of Firestarter, King throws us into the middle of a battle of survival.
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