Get Shorty

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, RenÚ Russo and Danny DeVito.

Elmore Leonard has written thirty-four novels, including such bestsellers as Cuba Libre, Out of Sight, Riding the Rap, Pronto, Rum Punch, Maximum Bob, and Glitz.  Many of his books have been made into movies and he has written numerous screenplays. His next book, Be Cool, a sequel to Get Shorty, will be published by Delacorte Press next year.  He lives with his wife, Christine, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.


From the Trade Paperback edition.