Get Shorty

Get Shorty by Leonard, Elmore. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780440209805.

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 isnt 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.