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

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