num_pages: 208
description: Nickel is a survivor. He has to be. For as long as he can remember his life has hinged on the flip of a coin. Or rather the scribble of a social workers pen. Hes been through the system even had a good dad for a few years until he was gone too. But Nickel remembers everything he taught him and since the day he escaped from foster-care hell hes put that knowledge to good use. Just twelve years old he makes a steady living by selling marijuana to high schoolers blackmailing pedophiles he ferrets out online and working as a private investigator. When a beautiful girl named Arrow hires him to find her little sister Shelby Nickel figures at best the kids a runaway; at worst some pervs gotten a hold of her. He scours the internet and the streets of Arrows suburban neighborhood and what he finds there is as ugly a truth as hes ever seen. For beyond the manicured lawns Nickel discovers children for sale and adults with souls black as the devil. And people like that arent about to let some kid ruin their game. This edgy thriller introduces a canny precocious antihero the likes of which young-adult readers have never seen.
language: English
title: Nickel Plated
publisher: AmazonEncore