![]() ![]() Maybe worse, a meningitis that you can control, if you just follow orders from the top. A leprosy that can be stemmed by just behaving like everyone else. Imagine a cancer that you can keep at bay if you fall in line with a crowd. This is about a plague that can be tamed. See, this is a novel about tribal behaviour. But what starts out as a novel about a plague, and all that typical post-apocalyptic nonsense that goes along with it, shifts gear at the end of a wildly entertaining first third, and becomes something much, much more interesting. ![]() Incurable – Glen Beck explodes at the start – that’s how serious it all is. It’s a novel that first and foremost appears to be about a plague, a terrible plague that causes spontaneous human combustion within anyone who catches it. Without even referencing a single one of his father’s novels. We’re going to review Joe Hill’s new novel The Fireman without once mentioning his parentage. ![]()
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