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      Get Shorty

      by Elmore Leonard
      Published
      Jul 1990
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      384
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      Chili Palmer Book 1

      About This Book

      Miami mob little-guy, loan shark Chili Palmer, is seriously thinking of a career change when a client skips town. Pursuit leads him to L.A.... and the rest, as they say, is history. As a crook, Chili has all the qualifications to make it in the movie business. Soon he's hooked up with horror-film producer Harry Zimm and former starlet Karen Flores, a size-D screamer. But hustling Harry has stiffed a backer, some Miami muscle is headed west to break more than Chili's bubble and suddenly Chili's over his head in "high concepts"--a Hollywood scam calculated to confound "investors" who make it clear that there are more ways to get killed than at the box office.

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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      General Fiction Suspense

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      Action Adventure Hard-Boiled

      Themes

      Movie/TV Adaptations

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