A 2016 American novel by Richard Kadrey that is the first of the Another Coop Heist series that has a thief named Coop who delivers a box to a client and soon everyone is after the box.
It was followed by The Wrong Dead Guy in 2017.
The Everything Box provides examples of:
- Anti-Magic: Coop was born with a unique immunity to magic — spells discharge against him harmlessly and hexgun bolts pass through him as though he wasn't there. He exploits this to burgle the homes of the rich and powerful, whose Protective Charms and Booby Traps can't touch him at all.
- Apocalypse Cult: Parodied with two rival doomsday cults, each vying to obtain a particular apocalyptic artifact to unleash the End Times in the name of its respective patron Demon Lord. One operates out of a fried fish restaurant and suffered a schism over the spelling of its patron's name. Both are oddly sanguine about the prospect of pitching themselves and the planet into eternal torment.
- Candlelit Ritual: The Summoning Ritual to invoke the Archfiend Caleximus is performed by black-robed Apocalypse Cultists before a rune-etched altar lit only by red candles... in a trailer at a construction site, because the cultists still have day jobs.
- Fantastic Firearms: Behind the Masquerade, some people use hexguns that fire bolts of destructive magic in lieu of, or alongside, conventional firearms. This is good news to Coop; his innate Anti-Magic causes the bolts to pass through him like he wasn't there.
- Finger Gun: The Fallen Angel Qaphsiel has a habit of making a finger gun and saying "Bang" when he blows people up with his mind, though it isn't necessary for the power to work.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Nelson is first framed as a jaded Cowboy Cop with a Hidden Heart of Gold to contrast his rookie By-the-Book Cop partner. However, it soon becomes obvious that he's every bit the obnoxious, drunken, spiteful, amoral asshole he looks like, and his misbehavior escalates until he pulls a gun on Coop and gets shot dead by his own partner.
- The Men in Black: The Department of Peculiar Science investigates (and employs) paranormal entities from The Greys to Fallen Angels to zombies. They're secretive and make liberal use of Perception Filters, but don't seem to care much about the Masquerade beyond the fact that it makes their bureaucratic work easier.
- Recruiting the Criminal: The Department of Peculiar Science arranges for Coop, an expert burglar with a rare gift of Anti-Magic, to be released early from prison in exchange for him stealing an artifact for them. It also recruits his old partner and ex-girlfriend for their own magical gifts and criminal expertise, albeit with only the treat of jail time as an alternative.
- Winged Humanoid: Setting the theological tone of the book, the angel Qaphsiel's large wings are described in his first appearance as looking "like a condor with a pituitary problem".
