Shiga becomes the Tom Clancy of library science in this flabbergasting thriller, ripped from the headlines of a yesteryear that never was. It’s 1973, a twisted criminal mastermind has stolen a priceless book, and the high-tech and heavily armed security forces of the Oakland Public Library will stop at nothing to get it back. Shiga’s stripped-down visual style reaches new heights of violent slapstick, underscored by drily hilarious dialogue in the mode of a motor-mouthed police procedural.