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You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero

Published
Jun 2008
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General Fiction General Fiction
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240
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Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom?



In this book, YOU, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping. Julia, the girl you went out with last night, has been TAKEN HOSTAGE. What will you do? Will you go to the police and ask for help? Will you burst into the hideout, killing everyone in sight, then tell Julia that she shouldn't misinterpret this as some sort of big commitment? Or will you unplug your phone and just get really, really drunk? The choice is yours!



You awake to the sound of the phone ringing.



"Hello?"



You hear a man's voice. It is muffled. "We've got Julia."



"Wait, what do you mean?"

"We have kidnapped your girlfriend. If you ever want to see her again---"

"Whoa, she's not my girlfriend," you say. "I just met her. I mean, I had a good time with her and all, but I wanna take it slow with this one, I think."

"We understand," the voice says. "But she's new to the city, and presently, you're all she has. Give us fifty thousand dollars by tomorrow or we'll blow her head off."

If you want to go and ask your parents if you can borrow fifty thousand dollars, go to page 173.

If you want to have sex with your ex-girlfriend, consider getting back together with her, then think better of it, go to page 183.

BE VERY CAREFUL! You're directing the story and the CHOICES you make can result in MURDER, GRADUATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, TORTURE, MARRIAGE, POST-APOCALYPTIC SLAVERY, UNWANTED PREGNANCY, even TEMPING! It's YOUR STORY and YOUR LIFE. All you've got to do is decide which page you want to turn to. JUST MAKE A CHOICE!

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First Edition Jun 2008 Griffin ISBN 0312377347
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Jul 2010 Griffin ISBN B001ANUOUW
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Jul 2010 Virgin (UK) ISBN 0753521113
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