{"product_id":"shaker-a-novel-9780385350037","title":"Shaker: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet 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 doesnt 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 cant 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 hes seen; Mayor Miguel Santiago  who finds himself facing accusations that hes just had his opponent whacked; Albert Budin  Roys onetime mentor and one of the scariest  creepiest characters in recent crime fiction; and myriad criminals  politicians  and cops who all need Roy to disappearpreferably 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648264429621,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385350031","price":20.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385350037.jpg?v=1781714579","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shaker-a-novel-9780385350037","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}