The Fireman

"Even though Joe Hill launched his writing career as a fully formed, highly distinctive author, he still gets compared to his father, Stephen King. But those comparisons are inevitable, given the deliberate parallels both men draw to each other’s work. In The Fireman, Hill makes a brilliant leap of imagination, creating a horrifying plague that causes victims to burst into flame. But he also illustrates the resulting apocalypse in ways that recall King’s The Stand, from his worldwide focus to his deep look at richly realized characters, particularly an infected heroine trying to bring her pregnancy to term before she dies."