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Cell

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25th January 2007

Price: £10.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781848941014

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Now with a stunning new cover look, Stephen King’s No. 1 bestselling apocalyptic thriller will mean you ‘won’t use your mobile for days’ (Guardian)

You can run. You can hide. Just don’t pick up.

The event which propels civilization into its second dark age is known as The Pulse. The virus is is carried by every cell phone operating in the world. Within hours, those receiving calls will become infected.

In Boston, artist Clayton Riddell flees the explosive heart of the city. He knows he has to reach his son before the young boy switches on his little red phone. And time is running out . . .

Reviews

<i>The Times</i>
The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades.
<i>Time Out</i>
What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats . . . It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent.
<i>Daily Mail</i>
Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots
<i>Daily Mirror</i>
'King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline.'
<i>The Times</i>
The true narrative artist is a rare creature. Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift. I don't think it can be taught . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades.
<i>Time Out</i>
What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats . . . It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent.
<i>Daily Mail</i>
Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots
<i>Daily Mirror</i>
'King's genius for storytelling ensures there is plenty still to chew on. is King just scaring us into binning our mobiles? For now, I'm sticking to the landline.'
Guardian
Very clever and brilliantly written . . . you won't use your mobile for days.
The Times
Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or the reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next - is a gift . . . Stephen King has this gift in spades.