Lisa B. reviewed on 8/8/2006 + 37 more book reviews

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 isn't all that different from making your bones; you gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock 'em dead...

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