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Cell - by Stephen King (Paperback)

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  • The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King--now featuring a stunning vintage cover!
  • About the Author: Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.
  • 416 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Horror

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About the Book



Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the attack can stop the rampage.



Book Synopsis



The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King--now featuring a stunning vintage cover!

On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse.

The delivery method is a cell phone--everyone's cell phone. Now Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a relentless human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.

There's really no escaping this nightmare. But for Clay, an arrow points the way home to his family in Maine, and as he and his fellow refugees make their harrowing journey north, they begin to see the crude signs confirming their direction. A promise of a safe haven, perhaps, or quite possibly the deadliest trap of all...



About the Author



Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.31 Inches (W) x 1.04 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Horror
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Stephen King
Language: English
Street Date: July 14, 2026
TCIN: 1006771870
UPC: 9781668234068
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-3280
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.04 inches length x 5.31 inches width x 8.25 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.7 pounds
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