Recommended reading – Get Shorty

 

Get Shorty

by Elmore Leonard.

 
First published 1990.
Published by Mariner Books.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0062120255
ISBN-13: 978-0062120250
 
Description:
 
“The coolest, hottest writer in America.” – Chicago Tribune.
 

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 funniest crime thriller ever set among the hustlers and con artist of the movie colony.” – Wall Street Journal.
 
“A Hollywood hit…. Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” – Detroit News.
 
“A terrific thriller…. The kind of entertainment that usually makes Hollywood types talk about selling their souls (or their mothers).” – Orlando Sentinel.