Summary
Part One: The First Message
I Am the Messenger begins with a botched bank robbery. The gunman is so incompetent he drops his gun and steals a car that barely runs. Ed Kennedy, a directionless nineteen-year-old cab driver, picks up the gun and prevents the robber from leaving. Ed is hailed as a hero even though he is not usually the hero type. His “bewildered face is plastered all over the front pages.”
After the hype dies down, Ed goes back to his ordinary life. He drives his cab, and in his spare time he plays cards...
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