Firestarter [Fire-Starter]

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First trade edition. Minor 1 inch stain on fore edge of rear endpaper, two other tiny smudges on fore edge, jacket lightly toned. Binding tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1980 Hard Cover. 428 pp. The novel that inspired the film starring a young Drew Barrymore. Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror... First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers. Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter. Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal." Now the government wants its brainchild back - for its own insane ends.