01604cam a2200265 4500 56991580 TxAuBib 20090731120000.0 040615s1980||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 80014793 9780670315413 0670315419 (OCoLC)6277645 TxAuBib King, Stephen, 1947- Firestarter / Stephen King. New York : Viking Press, 1980. 428 p. ; 24 cm. "A limited first edition of this book has been published by Phantasia Press.". Firestarter is the story of Andrew & Charlie McGee, a father-daughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. During his college years, Andy had participated in a Shop experiment dealing with lysergic acid, a trial that gifted his wife, Victoria Tomlinson, with minor telekinetic & telepathic abilities, & given him an autohypnotic mind domination ability he refers to as "the Push". Both his & Vicky's powers are physiologically limited; in his case, overuse of the Push gives him crippling headaches & minute brain hemorrhages, but Charlie had developed frightening pyrokinetic ability, with the full extent of her power unknown. After a mistake was made by Shop agents, Vicky was killed & Charlie was taken, but Andy, using the Push, managed to reclaim her & the pair have been on the run since. (Goodreads.) 20040615. Experiments. Fiction. Horror tales. TXLIV