Get Shorty
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, 1991.
Edition: First Edition
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 292 pages
Original Price: $
ISBN: 0385323980
Genre: Crime/Contemporary
Locations: Miami, Las Vegas and Hollywood
Special Notes: Filmed as Get Shorty (1995)
Characters: Ernest “Chili” Palmer, Bo Catlett, Bear
Jacket Copy:
When Chili Palmer, a Miami extortionist, agrees to help a fellow mobster track down a movie producer trying to evade his Las Vegas debts, a new world of opportunities opens up before him.
Reviews:
Nobody writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: “When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio’s on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off.” You need to know about this because you need to know why there’s bad blood between Chili Palmer and Ray Bones, the guy who stole his coat and is now his boss—and has ordered him to collect $4,200 from a dead guy. Except the guy didn’t die; he went to Las Vegas with $300,000. So Chili goes to Las Vegas, one thing leads to another, and pretty soon he’s in Los Angeles, hanging out with a movie producer named Harry Zimm and learning what it takes to be a player in Hollywood.
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