num_pages: 384
description: In a novel filled with his signatures -- nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit -- Elmore Leonard proves once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured.  In Get Shorty , he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the men are corrupt, and making it big isn't all that different from making your   you gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock 'em dead.Get Shorty is now a major motion picture directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman, RenÚ Russo and Danny DeVito.
language: English
title: Get Shorty
titlecomplete: Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)
characters: Jimmy "Cap" Capotorto, Chili Palmer
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Humor, Novels, Crime, Suspense
ratings_count: 23190
series: Chili Palmer
publisher: Dell