SCOTT FRANK

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.

Las claves para ganar dinero en la bolsa son comprar barato y vender caro, pero en el sector inmobiliario hay un tercer factor: alquilar con inteligencia. En este libro, Scott Frank y Andy Heller explican como funciona el programa de inversion que les ha permitido combinar con exito los tres factores. Comprar barato significa encontrar viviendas con un precio entre 10 Y 20 por ciento por debajo del precio de mercado. Alquilar con inteligencia implica cobrar la cantidad justa y minimizar el tiempo y el dinero de la gestion. Vender caro consiste en vender a precios de mercado, sin descuentos ni intermediarios. Invertir en vivienda propone un metodo contrastado para invertir en el sector inmobiliario y obtener beneficios. Los autores ofrecen varias herramientas practicas, tales como un modelo de carta de oferta, pautas para la inspeccion de viviendas y materiales de marketing para facilitar el alquiler y la venta de los inmuebles.