Billy Dent Chapter Summary

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This book opens up with Jasper Dent and hes a pretty usual regular guy he tends to be kind of funny and charming, but one thing is different about him he is the son of the worlds most famous cereal killer Billy Dent jasper was basically under his fathers thumb for the first few years of his life that his brother took care of him and his father basically taught him everything about cereal killings and witnessed a lot of crime scenes, his dad was basically trying to teach him how to be the next generation of cereal killer but in the doing so his father was caught and sent to prison. So now jasper had to recreate his life without his father. This book opens up talking about crimes scenes and a lot of murders happening in his home town and everyone

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