num_pages: 292
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 bones: 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, René 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: Delta