Get Shorty: A Novel

ISBN: 0062120255

Author: Leonard, Elmore

Condition: New

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