Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...

If any writer is capable of producing the Great American Zombie Novel, it would have to be Stephen King Cell is hard to put down once you've picked it up. There is no shortage of harrowing scenes.... A solid,entertaining read.

It's [King's] manic Creative energy, [his] crazy headlong non-stop verve, that makes Ce/1 a marvel With his exquisite and unerring knack for just what it takes to keep readers sublimely hooked . .. you realize you're utterly at the mercy of a master storyteller. Cell includes some of King's most beautiful writing and affecxing characterizations.

Cell [is] the most upsetting and vital ngvel I've read since Philip Roth's Tbe Plot Against America Thehormr in 02/works on a deeper, more frightening level than as a metaphor for the untenable choices we face when responding to a violent threat In refusing to reduce experience to sloganeering, King is doing the sort of hard--both difficult and tough-minded---moral thinking that . . . only a few of our political writers and artists have attempted, let alone achieved [An] engrossing and terrifying story.