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Written by Elmore Leonard - Audio book performed by Joe Mantegna - CASSETTES

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (November 2000)

Pronto For 20 years Harry Arno has operated a sports book in Miami Beach, taking bets on all the pro games. And for 20 years Harry has been skimming off the top of the profits, short-changing his silent partners, the local wiseguys. Harry is ready to retire to a villa on the Italian Riviera with his girlfriend Joyce, when he becomes the fall guy in an FBI assault on organized crime and ends up running for his life.

Get Shorty In a novel filled with his signatures; nerve shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit; Elmore Leonard proves once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured.

In Get Shorty, he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the men are corrupt, and making it big isn't all that different from making your bones: You gotta know who to pitch, who to hit, and how to knock'em dead.

Riding the Rap It seemed like a brilliant idea. Three mismatched bad guys; a Palm Beach pothead, a Bahamian ex-con, and a Puerto Rican gardener turned mob enforcer; get together to carry out the perfect crime: kidnap retired Miami bookie Harry Arno and let him pay the ransom with his ill-gotten wealth. He can't go to the cops later. No one will miss him. It's perfect. Or so they figure.

They figure wrong. Harry's former girlfriend, ex-topless dancer Joyce Patton, misses him a lot. Now she's sending her current boyfriend, Stetson-hatted federal marshal Raylan Givens, looking for Harry. And Raylan always gets his man. And in this case, he also gets his woman; the last person to see Harry, a sexy psychic named Dawn. Dawn may be clairvoyant, or she may be in on the kidnapping. Either way, she gives Raylan a lead, and he's hunting on Florida's 24-karat Gold Coast for three loco hombres and trying to bring Harry back alive.

About the Author: Elmore Leonard has written thirty-five novels, including such bestsellers as Be Cool; Out of Sight; Riding the Rap; Pronto; Rum Punch; Maximum Bob; Get Shorty; Glitz; Freaky Deaky; and Killshot. Many of his books; including Get Shorty and Out of Sight; have been made into movies; many more are in production. Leonard has written numerous screenplays. He lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.