Get Shorty

<p>A Hollywood hit....Taut inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard. <br />--<em>Detroit News</em></p><p>The <em>Chicago Tribune</em> 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 (<em>Seattle Times</em>) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with <em>Get Shorty</em> one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito <em>Get Shorty</em> 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. <em>Get Shorty</em>'s 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 <em>Justified</em>--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! (<em>New York Times Book Review</em>)<br /></p>