YOU DON'T READ ELMORE LEONARD, YOU LISTEN TO HIM

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | August 14, 1990 | Copyright

GET SHORTY

By Elmore Leonard

Delacorte, 292 pages, $18.95 You probably wouldn't want to meet the people in Elmore Leonard's novels, even on neutral territory and at high noon. But the guy does make you want to read about them for hours on end.

"Get Shorty" is about Chilli Palmer, a shylock, a minor employee in the Mafia's loan operation, the kind of guy who says "Look at me" to a slow pay, who thereupon invariably decides to become a fast pay because of the things Chilli can probably arrange to do to him.

As the book gets under way, there has…

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