Get Shorty

✍ Scribed by Elmore Leonard

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 171 KB
• Edition: HarperCollins eBook (2002)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0061807389

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 384 pages
Published 1990
HarperCollins eBook (2002)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind—plus his “friends” have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town, with its dream-makers, glitter, hucksters, and liars—plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look—seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the cinematic. Besides, Chili’s got an idea for a 'killer' movie, though it could very possibly kill him to get it made.
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.