The Fireman: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From the award-winning, NY Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling book in regards to a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to lessen civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man referred to as the Fireman.

The fireman is coming. Stay great.

No one has learned exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying brand-new plague is distributing like wildfire across the country, impressive about The Fireman: A Book cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everybody else it’s Dragonscale, an extremely contagious, fatal spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and silver marks across their bodies-before leading to them to burst into flames. Large numbers are contaminated; blazes erupt all over the place. There is absolutely no antidote. No-one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the bottom. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her pores and skin. When the outbreak first started, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their personal hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live-at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At a healthcare facility, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy infants and feels hers will end up being fine as well . if she can live long enough to provide the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife offers made him ill, Jakob turns into unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos provides rise to ruthless Cremation Squads-armed, self-appointed posses roaming the roads and woods to exterminate those that they believe bring the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she concerns: a incomprehensible and convincing stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man inside a filthy yellow fire fighter’s jacket, having a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman suffering from Dragonscale who has learned to control the fireplace within himself, utilizing it like a shield to protect the hunted . . . so that as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In the desperate season to come, as the world can burn out of control, Harper must find out the Fireman’s secrets before her life-and that of her unborn child-goes up in smoke.