Wholesale Fireman, The : Joe Hill

A Novel Paperback | FICTION/Horror / General 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 a powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman “A tour de force of imagination, grounded by beautiful writing and attention to the human heart. It’s a gripping, haunting saga that further establishes Hill as one of the finest storytellers at work today.” —Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one. 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.