Cell - Softcover

King, Stephen

3.66

222,844 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340921536 ISBN 13: 9780340921531

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2007

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'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.'

The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within hours, those receiving calls would be infected.

A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. He flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone . . .

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Review:

This is a Stephen King novel, so while it is very clever and brilliantly written, it is also bathed in blood...The denouement is satisfyingly explosive, but I promise you you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

Very clever and brilliantly written . . . you won't use your mobile for days. (Guardian)

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. Plenty of things about writing can be - but this cannot. Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades. (The Times)

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. (The Times)

What makes this one of his most poignant books is not the gore or the sinister threats of the near-articulate zombie called the Raggedy man. It is a father's helpless dread of what he has not been able to prevent. (Time Out)

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. (Time Out)

Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots (Mark Billingham, Daily Mail)

Fans will rejoice that King has gone back to his horror-novel roots (Daily Mail)

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. (Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror)

'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.' (Daily Mirror)

From the Publisher:

Campbell Scott's reading of CELL by Stephen King will send shivers down your spine - if you're a fan of King, or even of books, you have to hear this.

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