Shaker: A Novel by Scott Frank

Author:Scott Frank [Frank, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, Adult
ISBN: 9780385350037
Amazon: B00RKO0L2Q
Goodreads: 24040541
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Initially, the plan was to walk into the hospital, find Mr. Freeze, and shoot him with his own gun. But that idea had several obvious drawbacks. Numero uno being that shooting someone in a hospital would be a loud event and once they started shooting, they’d probably never make it back out the door.

Science didn’t mind this outcome as turning off the dude everyone thought was a hero would make him a ghetto star, a real soldier for sure, which is where he wanted to be. He’d go to jail, but he’d ride the beef and continue his gang education there, come out when he was eighteen, most likely a full-on general. From there Science could take the Vineland Boyz from a bunch of wannabe Jay Zs, all of them posing, fake hitting blunts on their YouTube videos, and turn them once more into a real army, take back the trade the fucking Mexicans had grabbed when they weren’t looking.

But Truck was closer to eighteen and not anywhere near down for getting caught on account of he’d most likely do life at San Quentin or Soledad, one of those places. Truck thought they should either strangle the dude with a cord from one of the machines they got in the room or cut his throat, play it by ear.

Things were weird from the get-go. First as they were walking into the hospital, some famous actor dude showed up with all this muscle. Science remembered the guy from the movie Zorro back when he was like three years old, assumed the man was here to visit Mr. Freeze, shake his hand or some bullshit. Science figured they follow him, they find their dude.

All the news guys with the movie star made Truck nervous, but Science thought their presence made it all that much easier. They walk in with the group, but then hide or hang back and wait for everyone to have their visit and leave—“Time for Mr. Freeze to rest”—and then they go in and make the man do just that.

It all began just fine. The movie star at first not so sure about them, but then inviting them onto the elevator with his boys. On the way up, Science heard someone call him “Mr. Mayor” and told him his moms had cancer. Just popped into his head, and the guy was like all of a sudden his boy. They even took a few pix together before they got off the elevator and their plan went to shit.

The instant they got off and started roaming around the corridor, a uniformed cop saw them, asked them what they were doing. Science fed him the cancer mom rap, but a nurse overheard and said the oncology ward was two floors up. This floor was all post-op. Then, as they were walking back to the elevator, they heard that Mr. Freeze had left.

Another cop was giving them a funny look, so they just took off and ran down the stairs, which, weirdly, started swaying the minute they hit them.

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