Firestarter (1980)

Publisher

Viking

Synopsis

The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.

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Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a young girl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Now, the government wants this hot little number for its own insane ends.