Summary Of The Raggedy Phoner

The story starts in Boston, Massachusetts with Clay Riddle, Clay is an author and artist. Clay is in Boston when some type of terrorist attack or Virus turns some people into bloodthirsty zombies, but only the people that were talking on cell phones. These "Phoners," as they were called later in the book, are vicious and violent, killing everyone, Phoners and people alike. Clay eventually flees with Tom McCourt and Alice Maxwell, they soon realize that the phoners have changed and are searching for food, the phoners are also banding together in flocks, moving from place to place in these groups. Clay is searching for his wife and son in Maine, on the way they discover that the phoners have gotten more intelligent, and they are carrying around

Ardai commits suicide under the power of the Raggedy Man, as the phoner in the Harvard hoodie is called. Clay finds out that his son has been turned to a phoner in a town called Kashwak, so Clay heads to Kashwak with a "push" from the psychic abilities of the flock group. On the way to Kashwak, Clay and his group find out that the Phoners have gained more powers, They can now partially speak and levitate everywhere they go. When Clay and his group gets to Kashwak, they are taken prisoner to be executed at the largest flock gathering they have ever seen. Clay has Jordan go and get the bus they rode on to get to Kashwak, which was filled with explosives from a mine they passed on the way, Jordan drives it out to the middle of the sleeping flock, takes cover and detonates the explosives. There was a huge amount of damage, it killed thousands of phoners, but Clay was still on the hunt for his son. Clay finds him, his son Johnny was given a corrupted "pulse" signal from a cell phone by the phoners, and with a theory from Jordan, Clay will try to reset his son's brain with another cell phone pulse signal. The book ends with Clay placing the cell phone to Johnny's