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From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.

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Nobody knew where the virus came from.
FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s.
MSNBC said sources indicated it might´ve been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation.
CNN reported both sides.
While every TV station debated the cause, the world burnt.
Pregnant school nurse, HARPER GRAYSON, had seen lots of people burn on TV, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school.
With the epic scope of THE PASSAGE and the emotional impact of THE ROAD, this is one woman´s story of survival at the end of the world.

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Joe Hill wurde 1972 in Neuengland geboren. Nach dem College begann er mit dem Schreiben. Für seine Kurzgeschichten, die in zahlreichen Zeitschriften und Anthologien erschienen, wurde er bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem "Ray Bradbury Fellowship" und dem "Bram Stoker Award". 2006 erhielt er u.a. den renommierten "World Fantasy Award". Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen drei Kindern in New Hampshire.

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