They trek north by night across a devastated New England, having fleeting encounters with other survivors and catching disturbing hints about the activities of the phoners, who still attack non-phoners on sight.Ĭrossing into New Hampshire, they arrive at the Gaiten Academy, a prep school with one remaining teacher, Headmaster Charles Ardai, and one surviving pupil, Jordan. Having no better alternatives, Tom and Alice come with him. Clay is still determined to return to Maine and reunite with his young son, Johnny. The next day, they learn the "phoners" have begun foraging for food and banding together. Civilization crumbles as the "phoners" attack each other and anyone in view.Īmidst the chaos, Clay is thrown together with middle-aged Thomas McCourt and fifteen-year-old Alice Maxwell the trio escapes to Tom's suburban home as Boston burns. Clay is standing in Boston Common when the Pulse hits, causing chaos to erupt around him near an ice cream truck. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.Ĭlayton Riddell, a struggling artist from Maine, has just landed a graphic novel deal in Boston when "The Pulse", a signal sent out over the global cell phone network, suddenly turns every cell phone user into mindless zombie-like killers. Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |