Get Shorty: A Novel

GET SHORTY

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Houston Chronicle

“A good, rootin’-tootin’ Elmore Leonard adventure with the usual suspects, the locker full of money, the wheelers, the dealers, the crazies, and the girl. Get Shorty gets Hollywood right where it lives and the joke is so funny, so infinitely tricky, so perfectly synchronized on so many levels that it’s apt to make you spin.”

Chicago Tribune

“A terrific caper . . . One of the most hilarious and cynical Hollywood revenge novels ever written . . . Fast and funny dialogue that puts a new twist on Oscar Wilde’s notion that life imitates art.”

Playboy

“Leonard gets better and better and better. He makes the rest of us mystery writers green with envy.” Tony Hillerman

“Leonard is our greatest crime novelist. . . . After you close this wonderful book, the title hits you one more shot, a delayed shot, and you realized you’ve had the touch put on you again, perfectly, by the best in the business.”

Washington Post

“His best! . . . Throw in double-deals, triple-takes, a murder or two, patented Leonard real-life dialogue and plot twists, and you have ol’ Dutch Leonard at his finest and most entertaining.”

Detroit Free Press

“The reigning master of hard-action crime fiction . . . Few fiction writers match the artful ability of Elmore Leonard, first to persuade you to read his next sentence, then to draw you into reading his next chapter, and finally to seduce you into reading his entire book.”

Cincinnati Enquirer

“Gut-busting satire.”

Chicago Sun-Times

“There’s nobody like Elmore Leonard. Get Shorty is as fast, lively, and funny as anybody would want.”

Cosmopolitan

“A terrific thriller . . . It has all the Leonard trademarks: offbeat characters, a nimble plot, and crisp, street-smart dialogue. . . . The kind of entertainment that usually makes Hollywood types talk about selling their souls (or their mothers).”

Orlando Sentinel

“The King of Daddy of crime novelists.”

Seattle Times

“A book that Raymond Chandler and Nathaniel West might have written if they had decided to join forces. . . . It is at heart a portrait of a community, less angry than The Day of the Locust but no less devastating in its tour of the industry’s soiled follies. . . . Leonard’s ears, eyes, and recall are nearly perfect.”

Los Angeles Times

“Entertaining, fast-paced . . . Superbly crafted.”

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Detroit News

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New York Observer

“Leonard at his most playful . . . The action scenes . . . maintain a perfect balance between horror and farce. And Leonard’s pacing remains quite simply the best in the business.”

Entertainment Weekly

“A master of narrative . . . A poet of the vernacular . . . Leonard paints an intimate, precise, funny, frightening, and irresistible mural of the American underworld.”

The New Yorker

“While Leonard excels at low-life suspense, he’s also a master fiction writer whose gift for dialogue and cunningly meandering plots any novelist would envy.”

San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

“Roundly satisfying . . . Chili Palmer . . . is a vintage Leonard hero . . . A perfect resolution puts punch in the title and will keep readers smiling for days.”

Publishers Weekly

“Leonard does crime fiction better than anyone since Raymond Chandler.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Vintage Leonard . . . Ranks among his best.”

Palm Beach Post

“Leonard is the best in the business: His dialogue snaps, his characters are more alive than most of the people you meet on the street, and his twisting plots always resolve themselves with a no-nonsense plausibility.”

Newsday

“Wonderful . . . Astonishing . . . Leonard understands Hollywood perfectly.”

New York Times

“His books defy classification. . . . What Leonard does is write fully realized novels, using elements of the classic American crime novel and populating them with characters so true and believable you want to read their lines aloud to someone you really like.”

Dallas Morning News

“Leonard is tops in his field. . . . In Leonard’s sleazy world you always meet interesting characters.”

New Orleans Times-Picayune

“Clever, entertaining . . . and for anyone not yet hooked, a good place to start.”

Boston Globe

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