Hell Phone
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Books › Young Adult Fiction › Horror
ISBN: 0810954796 / Publisher: Amulet, September 2006
Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.
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A murder story with a devilish twistNick wants a cell phone so he can talk to his girlfriend, Jen, after school, but he doesn’t have a lot of money. The used phone he buys seems like a bargain, until the phone calls begin—strangers calling night and day, some begging for help, others making demands. Nick wants to get rid of the phone, but something prevents him, and, soon he finds himself committing crimes—stealing, conning . . .and killing. Fans of William Sleator’s The Boy Who Couldn’t Die will enjoy this equally diabolical thriller. A murder story with a devilish twistNick wants a cell phone so he can talk to his girlfriend, Jen, after school, but he doesn’t have a lot of money. The used phone he buys seems like a bargain, until the phone calls begin—strangers calling night and day, some begging for help, others making demands. Nick wants to get rid of the phone, but something prevents him, and, soon he finds himself committing crimes—stealing, conning . . .and killing. Fans of William Sleator’s The Boy Who Couldn’t Die will enjoy this equally diabolical thriller.
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