04452cam a2200877 4500 574375584 TxAuBib 20220507120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385350044 038535004X B00RKO0L2Q Amazon aca9026c-a485-4b6d-84c0-44f79a10a9ce OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2335127 OverDrive (Product ID) 226090 226090 226090 TxAuBib Frank, Scott. Shaker [Libby] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. juvenile detention. crime fiction. hitmen. Urban Fiction. Los Angeles. teenagers. gangs. Fiction. crime. assassin. Thrillers. earthquakes. suspense. la. Race relations. debut. Thriller. Shakers. betrayal. Hollywood. Hitman. screenwriter. hit man. guns. baseball. drugs. Gang violence. LAPD. juvie. crime novels. Dodger Stadium. thriller books. mysteries and thrillers. crime books. mystery thriller suspense. hit men. scott frank. antique guns. los angeles police department. walther p38. suspense books. hunting stocking stuffers. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2381kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1412kB. Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML: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.&#160;<br /> 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.<br /> 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. <i>Shaker</i> is the debut work of fiction by a major new storyteller. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-05 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca9026c-a485-4b6d-84c0-44f79a10a9ce&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca9026c-a485-4b6d-84c0-44f79a10a9ce&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=aca9026c-a485-4b6d-84c0-44f79a10a9ce&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)