I don’t want to spoil the rest of the story but, suffice to say, things don’t exactly go to plan.Ĭan you imagine if the thing that all of us depend on so heavily turned against us? King’s explanation of how it could be done is really plausible, if you accept certain basic premises. On their way they discover that the “phone-crazies,” who don’t travel at night but during the day, seem to be heading in the same direction. The group decide to head north, firstly to Tom’s house then to Kent Pond to see if there is any sign of Clay’s ex-wife and young son. Here they encounter the third member or their group: Alice Maxwell, a young girl that Clay and Tom save when she is attacked by a maniac. Could phones be the root cause of this phenomenon? Deciding they must be, and feeling very lucky neither had their phones on them, Clay and Tom make their way back to Clay’s hotel after being given the advice to get off the streets.

Quite quickly they realise that all those affected had been using their mobiles moments before. He is joined by Tom McCourt, “a short man with thinning dark hair, a tiny dark moustache and gold rimmed spectacles,” as he tries to make sense of what is happening.

Clay finds that not only must he defend himself but others too. An ice-cream van is deliberately rammed by another vehicle. Another teenager runs repeatedly into a lamppost. The book tells the story of Clayton Riddell, who King describes as “a young man of no particular importance to history.” Clay is on his way back to his hotel after securing the sale of his graphic novels when people start to behave strangely. This story asks the reader to believe, firstly, that a message can be sent through cell (or mobile) phones, causing those hearing it to either murder someone or commit suicide secondly that after that initial response the people would then start to function as one organism. It was an excellent read and one I would recommend. Cell by Stephen King is a thriller about, of all things, mobile phones.

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