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Meet Roy Cooper, stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for various New York criminals. Roy occurs in LA to shoot a man named Martin Glimmer a week after a robust earthquake has knocked out cell service, buckled the freeways, and thrown LA into chaos. Roy doesn't know who Glimmer is or why he has to expire, but he will his job and will it well. Except for one thing: Following the hit, Roy can't find where he parked his car. Wandering the roads of North Hollywood, he stumbles after a jogger getting mugged and beaten by four young gangbangers. Despite his try to to put it simply his brain down and walk away, Roy winds up in the center of another killing. Things get more difficult when the murdered jogger turns out to be a controversial mayoral prospect. Roy himself is taken double, hospitalized in critical condition, and mistaken for a hero when a local resident leaks a video tutorial that runs viral. Now meet up with the remaining cast of heroes, including Kelly Maguire, a disgraced LAPD detective with an anger management problem and strange emotions about LA's hottest hero; Knowledge, the teenage gangbanger/shooter who must keep Roy silent about what he's seen; Mayor Miguel Santiago, who finds himself facing accusations that he's just possessed his opposition whacked; Albert Budin, Roy's onetime coach and one of the scariest, creepiest heroes in recent offense fiction; and myriad scammers, politicians, and cops who all need Roy to disappear - preferably permanently. Finally, meet Scott Frank, who has created not only one of the most entertaining novels of the year but also one of the most amazing. This first book is fun and funny as well as moving and textured, nuanced, and powerful. Shaker is the debut work of fiction by a significant new storyteller.
