BE COOL - Elmore Leonard

The sequel to "Get Shorty" written 10 years later. The defies what normally happens in that the sequel is better than the original.

This time Chili Palmer branches out into the music industry still living in Hollywood.

This story has a lot more of Leonard's trade mark humour and violence and the characters are a bit more developed than in the original.

A good read and its not necessary to read the first book , in fact its not recommended at all.

GET SHORTY - Elmore Leonard

Chili Palmer is a debt collector for the mob in Miami who travels via Las Vegas to Hollywood to recover an outstanding loan.

While there he converts into a movie producer, meeting various Hollywood types along the way and puts together a script.

This isn't one of Elmore's best, our hero is a bit too lucky and clever and there is not enough of the subtle violence that mark Leonard's best. Tends to be boring actually.

This book has been made into a movie, which is a movie about getting a movie made. Altogether too smart arsed.