Get Shorty

This crime novel follows Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who flies to Los Angeles to collect from a dry-cleaner who has skipped town and wanders into the movie business. He pitches his own story to a desperate producer, Harry Zimm, and is pulled into deals involving a dry-cleaning front, a B-movie actress, and men who want money or a script. Dialogue carries the action; violence is sudden and practical. Settings are Miami collections, Hollywood offices, and rented houses. The book is a Hollywood crime comedy, not a biography of the film industry.

Three-quarter bound in orange blocked cloth with a colour printed and blocked Modigliani paper front-board. Plain slipcase.