Get Shorty
β Scribed by Elmore Leonard
- Publisher
- Dell
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 176 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0440209803
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β¦ Synopsis
Loan shark Chili Palmer didn't say anything when Ray Bones stole his leather jacket from Vesuvio's in Miami. He just went to Ray's 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 isn't dead; he's 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 isn't all that different from making your bones. You gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock 'em dead.
Library : General
Universes : Chili Palmer [01]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780440209805
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### Amazon.com Review *Nobody* writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather
**A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY****has also been adapted for TV with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano*****.*** Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he's retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights