Stephen King - Cell

Man really is a great storyteller. I read him despite not having any especial fondness for horror or for adventure novels (those being the two main genres within which his work sits) because his writing has that quality that can't be faked - it pulls like a steam train (it also gets under my skin and often leaves me a little unnerved). Of course, it doesn't hurt when, as in this one, an apocalypse is in the offing (anything he writes in that vein will always be in the shadow of The Stand, but it has to be said that he's attempting something a little bit different here, and the way in which the victims of the 'pulse' evolve collectively is really quite interesting)...