Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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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)

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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 clad would-be starlets everywhere you look---seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the cinematic. Besides, Chili's got an idea for a killer movie, though it could very possibly kill him to get it made.