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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.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 )
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 c
When daredevil Dennis Lenahan brings his motorcycle high dive act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, he witnesses a mob hit while atop his diving platform and becomes mixed up with murder, mayhem, wild women, and a pack of southern-fried hoods. Leonard delivers a certifiabl
A hard-boiled thriller set in the sleazy inner-city and the lavish outer suburbs of 1970s Detroit . . . with all the nonstop action that makes it a page-turner from start to finish. 52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author
Leonard, Elmore: - Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan , Tishomingo Blues , Be Cool , Get Shorty , and Rum Punch , as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance , which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of h
