Be Cool

The New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard is back, and he's brought Get Shorty's Chili Palmer along for the ride. Be Cool is an unforgettable, hilarious and dead-on insider's look at Hollywood as only Leonard could write it.

Wall Street Journal

Hollywood brings out [Leonard's] comic best. This eminently satisfying sequel may become a film, but don't wait. Be cool now.

After 30 years writing westerns and crime novels, Elmore Leonard finally started to get somewhere. "Author Discovered After 23 Books," The New York Times said in 1983, referring to his Edgar Award-winning novel LaBrava. Since then, Leonard's tack-sharp dialogue and comic underworld characters have been drawing accolades and an ever growing base of fans.