Get Shorty

A Novel

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

New York Times Bestselling Author

“Brilliant...impressive...superb.” —Washington Post Book World

“A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit News

The classic New York Times bestseller that introduced Chili Palmer—a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators).

The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—the “King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. 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 from “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review)

An Interesting And Well Read Story

I liked this work of modern fiction. It is very well narrated. The style is such as I could mostly follow the story while simply listening and taking a walk, etc….

Boring narration.

Reader speaks in monotone and you can’t tell the difference between characters. This is a snappy story and should be read as such.

A clever idea for a story

Real-life action becomes the idea for a screenplay. Clever and fun to read. Makes me want to watch the movie version now.

I like Mr Montagna

But he wasn’t right for this. Really monotonous. I have no more words so I’m tying till I hit 15. I live almost everything Elmore Leonard has written

Go Lakers

A Classic Elmore Leonard novel very well narrated. Glad I spent the credit on this it was a fun listening experience.