Be Cool

A Novel

• Author(s): Elmore Leonard,
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Pages: 288
• ISBN_10: 006180486X
  ISBN_13: 9780061804861
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime , Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths , Literary Collections / American / General , Fiction / Women , Fiction / Literary , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Culinary , Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth , Fiction / Crime , Fiction / General ,

Description:...

Get Shorty’s Chili Palmer is back in Be Cool, a classic novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. But this time it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy.

After a smash hit and a flop, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea—until the exec, a former "associate" from Chili's Brooklyn days, gets whacked.

Segue from real life to reel life. Chili's found his plot. It's a slam-bang opener: the rubout of a record company mogul. Cut to an ambitious wannabe singer named Linda Moon. She has attitude and a band. She's perfect. Zoom in to reality. Linda's manager thinks Chili's poaching and he's out to get even, with the help of his switch-hitting Samoan bodyguard.

But somebody else beat them to the punch, as Chili discovers when he gets home and finds a corpse at his desk. Somebody made a mistake...