Get shorty - elmore leonard

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.

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 ).