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Detention X - Ghost Code
Paperback
Publisher: Stuart Tanner
Published: Dec 25 2025
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A heartbeat every 55 seconds. A school that won't stay dead. And six kids who remember how to refuse.
After burning Saint Catherine's servers, Jax and his friends thought the nightmare was over. But the detention system is back-this time living in Wi-Fi signals, phone cameras, and birthday videos that multiply like viruses. Now, the school is harvesting memories, printing paper avatars, and broadcasting a ghost-bell that demands obedience at 12:02 every Saturday.
Armed only with Faraday bags, origami knives, dyslexic code, and a spray-can full of chrome defiance, Class X must delete the system before it deletes them and the forty-eight childhoods it's already stolen.
Ghost Code is a razor-sharp, Black Mirror meets Paper Girls thriller about surveillance, memory, and the radical power of saying NO perfect for readers who believe the most dangerous hack isn't in the code... it's in the refusal to comply.
Refuse / Delete.
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