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Author: Stephen King

Thriller / suspense

Published on 28 August 2026 by Hodder & Stoughton (Hodder Paperback) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 576 pages, N/A
196 x 128 | 400g

Firestarter is King's classic thriller about a young girl with a terrifying gift.

You're a firestarter honey . . . just one big zippo lighter.

A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift.

A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy . . . Let the reader beware: FIRESTARTER is Stephen King at his most mesmerising . . . and menacing.