Get Shorty

A masterpiece Martin Amis

The coolest, hottest writer in AmericaChicago Tribune

A major Hollywood film starring John Travolta, GET SHORTY has also been adapted for TV with Chris ODowd and Ray Romano.

Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether hes retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood - and to a true story that would make a great movie. Soon hes pitching to Harry Zimm, a B-grade horror flick producer trying to make a comeback.

As the lure of Tinseltowns dream-makers and gorgeous wannabe starlets becomes increasingly hard to resist, Chili gets caught up in murder,revenge and romance. Will his killer movie ever get made, or will it just get him killed . . . ?

In Hollywood, home of movies, gorgeous women, players and fast operators - every move you make is a potential scene ... Nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue and scathing wit from the hottest thriller writer in the USTime Magazine

One of the most hilarious and cynical Hollywood revenge novels ever writtenPlayboy

Extremely funny, bursting with sustained passages of black comedy . . . a major American novelGuardian