Get Shorty - Softcover

Leonard, Elmore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062120255 ISBN 13: 9780062120250

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2011

Synopsis

"A Hollywood hit....Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard."
--Detroit News

The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, "the coolest, hottest writer in America." In the same league as the legendary great ones--John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain--the "King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies. Get Shorty's shylock protagonist, Chili Palmer, is a truly inspired creation--as memorable as another unforgettable Leonard hero, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified--and readers will relish his moves and countermoves in this electrifying, funny, bullet train-paced winner from "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!" (New York Times Book Review)

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Pub Date: 2011-11-29 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US Loan shark Chili Palmer didnt say anything when Ray Bones stole his leather jacket from Vesuvios in Miami He just went to Rays house. broke his nose. took the jacket. and left. Twelve years later. on account of his boss getting whacked. Chili finds himself working for Bones and ordered to collect on a bad debt from Leo Devoe. a guy who died in a plane crash. But it turns out Leo isnt dead;. hes in Las Vegas with the 300.000 the airline paid to his wife So Chili follows him to Vegas and then on to Hollywood. where he hooks up with movie producers. actors. and studio execs Getting Leo becomes a movie pitch unfolding in. a city where every move you make is a potential scene. and making it big isnt all that different from making your bones. You gotta know who to pitch. who to hit. and how to knock em ...

Review:

"An absolute master."--The Detroit News

"The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!"--The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0062120255
• ISBN 13: 9780062120250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304