Cell

From international bestseller Stephen King,a high-conceptingenious and terrifying story about the mayhem unleashed when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs. ThereΓÇÖs a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1God is in His heaventhe stock market stands at 10140most of the planes are on timeand Clayton Riddellan artist from Maineis almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. HeΓÇÖs just landed a comic book deal that might finally enable him to support his family by making art instead of teaching it. HeΓÇÖs already picked up a small (but expensive!) gift for his long-suffering wifeand he knows just what heΓÇÖll get for his boy Johnny. Why not a little treat for himself? ClayΓÇÖs feeling good about the future. That changes in a hurry. The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulseand the delivery method is a cell phone. EveryoneΓÇÖs cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilizationΓÇÖs darkest agesurrounded by chaoscarnageand a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature…and then begins to evolve. ThereΓÇÖs really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clayan arrow points home to Maineand as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north they begin to see crude signs confirming their direction. A promiseperhaps. Or a threat… There are 193 million cell phones in the United States alone. Who doesnΓÇÖt have one? Stephen KingΓÇÖs utterly grippinggoryand fascinating novel doesnΓÇÖt just ask the question ΓÇ£Can you hear me now?ΓÇ¥ It answers it with a vengeance.