Shaker: A novel
- ISBN-10
- 038535004X
- ISBN-13
- 9780385350044
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-01-26
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Author
- Scott Frank
Description
Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming “errand runner” 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 doesn’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 can’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. 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.’s newest hero; Science, the teenage gangbanger/shooter, who needs to keep Roy quiet about what he’s seen; Mayor Miguel Santiago, who finds himself facing accusations that he’s just had his opponent whacked; Albert Budin, Roy’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 disappear—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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Seeker: A Novel
By Ann H. Gabhart"In The Seeker, Ann H. Gabhart has penned a captivating story of love that blooms despite the desperate circumstances of the Civil War and a delicious heroine who chooses safety and seclusion among the Shakers.
-
The Shaker Book of the Garden: With a Facsimile of the Original Gardener's Manual of 1843
Charming, colorful illustrations interweave with the text and conjure up the atmosphere of Shaker communities. A facsimile of the 1843 edition of The Gardener's Manual gives the reader a direct link to this inspiring tradition.
-
Mover and Shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, and Baseball's Westward Expansion
By Andy McCueJack Lang's phone rang at five thirty that morning. Lang covered the Dodgers for the Long Island Press, which was headquartered on the north shore of Long Island, near where O'Malley had grown up and Campanella lived.
-
The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers
By Stephen J. SteinFrances Hall and Emma B. King to John Schott , 19 Oct. 1948 , NhCa . 5. Ibid . On the changing impact of aging on individuals , see Robert C. Atchley , Aging : Continuity and Change ( Belmont , Calif .
-
Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware, Volumes 1,2, & 3
By Ejner HandbergAn authoritative and classic three-book collection, now in one volume.
-
Mostly Shaker from the New Yankee Workshop
By Norm Abram, David SloanComplete, step-by-step directions--accompanied by photographs and line drawings--highlight a collection of ten, Shaker-inspired designs for woodworkers of various skill levels. Simultaneous. TV tie-in. 60,000 first printing. BOMC.
-
The Shaker Village
By Raymond BialIn The Shaker Village, author and photographer Raymond Bial brings readers the history of the Shaker religion and an examination of the Shaker way of life, which was based on cooperation and self-sufficiency.
-
Shaker Heights
By Bruce T. MarshallThis is a remarkable story of dramatic change but also continuity as residents pursue the goal of creating an ideal community.
-
The Complete Salt and Pepper Shaker Book
By Mike SchneiderCompany histories, measurements of shakers, and pictures of marks and paper labels are among the book's innovative features.
-
Shaker Textile Arts
By Beverly GordonBrethren's Clothing Brethren's Outfits The typical outfit for men in rural America in the late eighteenth century consisted of a white shirt covered by a waistcoat or vest ( also called a jacket ) , a long coat ( closer to a present ...