Jim initially refuses, and decidedly refuses to question his visions. Surely there are much more worthy people aboard, and why would God even have the plane crash at all? Holly presses Jim to do much more than just tell the couple to move, but that he should warn the pilot and maybe save everyone aboard. She questions why “God” would choose to let these two people live, and allow 151 other passengers to die, as Jim has foreseen.
Holly takes a more cynical view on things and decidedly argues how ridiculous such thoughts are. Holly is struck by Jim's belief that he has some magical power, sent by God no less. Jim tells her that he has been sent by God to save a mother and a child on the plane – he does not know why God has chosen these two in particular, but he does know that they must change seats or they will die in the horrific plane crash about which he has been sent a vision.
She decides to confront him and learns about Jim's strange but extraordinary powers. Holly decides to follow this humble yet elusive savior on his next “mission.” Unbeknownst to Jim, she rapidly follows him to the airport and boards a United Airlines DC-10 plane bound for Chicago. Holly is intrigued by Jim and his intense but cold blue eyes – eyes which burn with a passionate, cold fire, hence the novel's title. She discovers there have been 12 last-minute rescues reported over the last three months in other newspapers by a mysterious Good Samaritan named Jim with blue eyes. As she is leaving she witnesses Jim rescuing the child from the drunk driver and felt there was something fishy in Jim's explanations of how he started running for the child before seeing or hearing the van coming. She is a fine writer but is failing at her job because she is filled with too much integrity and compassion to be a good reporter. Reporter Holly Thorne was in Portland to write a less than exciting piece on a school teacher who has recently published a book of poetry full of poems which Holly finds are pure transcendental garbage – but such is Holly's lot in life. He has no idea where these visions come from or why, but he believes that he must be some sort of God-sent guardian angel with a heavenly gift. He rushes off to hail a cab or catch a plane, dropping whatever he's doing at the moment, much to the surprise of those around him. He gets “inspirations” and knows he must hurry to wherever prompted. In Houston he disarms a man who was trying to shoot his own wife – and he is not just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. In Boston he rescues a child from an underground explosion.
In Portland he saves a young boy from an oblivious drunk driver in a van. Recently retired teacher Jim Ironheart (aptly named) risks his life to save lives. Cold Fire is a 1991 novel written by the best-selling author Dean Koontz.
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