Shaker: A novel

Shaker: A novel

Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming â€œerrand runnerâ€ for various New York criminals. Roy arrives in Los Angeles to shoot a man named Martin Shine a week after a powerful earthquake has knocked out cell service, buckled the freeways, and thrown L.A. into chaos. Roy doesnâ€™t know who Shine is or why he has to die, but he does his job and does it well. Except for one thing: after the hit, Roy canâ€™t find where he parked his car. Wandering the streets of North Hollywood, he stumbles upon a jogger getting mugged and beaten by four young gangbangers. Despite his attempt to simply put his head down and walk away, Roy winds up in the middle of another killing. Things get more complicated when the murdered jogger turns out to be a controversial mayoral candidate. Roy himself is shot twice, hospitalized in critical condition, and mistaken for a hero when a local resident leaks a video that goes viral.Â

Now meet the rest of the cast of characters, including Kelly Maguire, a disgraced LAPD detective with an anger management problem and strange feelings about L.A.â€™s newest hero; Science, the teenage gangbanger/shooter, who needs to keep Roy quiet about what heâ€™s seen; Mayor Miguel Santiago, who finds himself facing accusations that heâ€™s just had his opponent whacked; Albert Budin, Royâ€™s onetime mentor and one of the scariest, creepiest characters in recent crime fiction; and myriad criminals, politicians, and cops who all need Roy to disappearâ€”preferably forever.

Finally, meet Scott Frank, who has created not just one of the most entertaining novels of the year but also one of the most surprising. This first novel is fun and funny as well as moving and textured, nuanced and powerful. Shaker is the debut work of fiction by a major new storyteller.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-01-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-01-26
Format	Kindle eBook

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