Under Rainbird's guidance, Charlie begins to demonstrate her power, which has grown to fearsome levels. Six months pass until a crucial blackout provides a changing point for the two: Andy, sick with fear and self-pity, somehow regains the Push, and Rainbird, masquerading as a simple janitor, befriends Charlie and gains her trust.īy pretending to still be powerless and addicted, Andy manages to gain crucial information by Pushing his psychiatrist. Charlie, however, defiantly refuses to cooperate with the Shop, and does not demonstrate her power for them. With his spirit broken, Andy becomes an overweight drug addict and seemingly loses his power, and is eventually deemed useless by the Shop. The pair is separated and imprisoned at the Shop headquarters. This time the operation is successful, and both Andy and Charlie are taken by the Shop. Rainbird, a Cherokee and Vietnam veteran, is intrigued by Charlie's power and eventually becomes obsessed with her, determined to befriend her and eventually kill her. With the Manders farm operation disastrously botched, the director of the Shop, Captain James Hollister, or "Cap", calls in a Shop hitman named John Rainbird to capture the fugitives. With nowhere else to turn, the pair flees to Vermont and take refuge in a cabin, that had once belonged to Andy's grandfather. At Andy's instruction, Charlie unleashes her power, incinerating the entire farm and fending off the agents, killing a few of them. However, they are tracked down by Shop agents, who attempt to kill Andy and take Charlie at the Manders farm. Using a combination of the Push, Charlie's power, and hitchhiking, the pair escape through Albany, New York and are taken in by a farmer named Irv Manders near Hastings, New York.
After a mistake was made by Shop agents, Vicky was killed and Charlie was taken, but Andy, using the Push, managed to reclaim her and the pair have been on the run since. Both his and Vicky's powers are physiologically limited in his case, overuse of the Push gives him crippling migraine headaches and minute brain hemorrhages, but their daughter Charlie developed a frightening pyrokinetic ability, with the full extent of her power unknown.
The drug gave his future wife, Victoria Tomlinson, minor telekinetic and telepathic abilities, and him an autohypnotic mind domination ability he refers to as "the Push". During his college years, Andy had participated in a Shop experiment dealing with "Lot 6", a drug with hallucinogenic effects similar to LSD. The book is dedicated to the author Shirley Jackson: "In Memory of Shirley Jackson, who never needed to raise her voice."e text of your article here!įirestarter is the story of Andrew and Charlie McGee, a father-adaughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. The novel was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 1981. Firestarter is a story by Stephen King originally serialized in Omni magazine and later published in novel form in 1980.
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