Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard

'A masterpiece' Martin Amis

'The coolest, hottest writer in America' Chicago Tribune

A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY has also been adapted for TV with Chris O'Dowd and Ray Romano.

Miami
loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he's retrieving stolen
property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him
to the bright lights of Hollywood - and to a true story that would make a
great movie. Soon he's pitching to Harry Zimm, a B-grade horror flick
producer trying to make a comeback.

As the lure of Tinseltown's
dream-makers and gorgeous wannabe starlets becomes increasingly hard to
resist, Chili gets caught up in murder,revenge and romance. Will his
killer movie ever get made, or will it just get him killed . . . ?

'In Hollywood, home of movies, gorgeous women, players and fast
operators - every move you make is a potential scene ... Nerve-shattering
suspense, crackling dialogue and scathing wit from 'the hottest
thriller writer in the US' Time Magazine

'One of the most hilarious and cynical Hollywood revenge novels ever written' Playboy

'Extremely funny, bursting with sustained passages of black comedy . . . a major American novel' Guardian