The Fireman

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What this book is about

A plague called Dragonscale spreads across America — a fungal infection that covers the body in beautiful black and gold tattoos before the host spontaneously combusts. Harper Grayson is a nurse who contracts the disease while pregnant. She falls in with a community of infected survivors led by a man called the Fireman, who has learned to control his fire rather than burn. But the survivor camp has its own hierarchy, its own secrets, and its own capacity for violence. Joe Hill's apocalyptic novel is a story about how quickly utopia becomes tyranny — and what one ordinary person will do to protect her child when the world has run out of safety.