Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 2013) From the Publisher: 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... Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. A Novel. William Morrow Paperbacks, ISBN: 9780062265999 (June, 2013), 275 p., $14.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Ice cool former loan shark Chili Palmer returns in the sequel to GET SHORTY - and this time he's taking on LA's music industry in a tale of drama, jealousy and betrayal. Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Phoenix, ISBN: 9780753827314 (March, 2010), 272 p., £7.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 2005) From the Publisher: Enter Linda Moon, a singer with aspirations that go further than her current gig in a Spice Girls cover band. Chili takes over as Linda's manager, entering the world of rock stars, pop divas, and hip-hop gangstas. As he wings his way to success in the music business with his trademark cool, Chili manipulates his adversaries and advances his friends, all the while basing the plot of his new film on the action that results. Be Cool is rife with drama, jealousy, and betrayal, and all Chili needs to do is survive to make a new box-office hit. Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Harper Paperbacks, ISBN: 0060777060 (January, 2005), 288 p., $14.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 2005) From the Publisher: Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Harpertorch, ISBN: 0060082151 (January, 2005), 384 p., $7.50.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Harpertorch, ISBN: 0060082151 (June, 2002), 384 p., $7.50.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (UK 2000) From the Publisher: Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140281428 (April, 2000), 304 p., £5.99.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 2000) From the Publisher: 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 into 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... Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Dell, ISBN: 0440235057 (January, 2000), 355 p., $7.50.
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Elmore Leonard: Be Cool (USA 1999) From the Publisher: Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film Get Leo bombed, and in Hollywood, you're considered only as hot as your last project. Once again outside the system, Chili is exploring an idea for his third film by lunching with a former "associate" from his Brooklyn days who's now a record label executive. When lunch begins with iced tea and ends in a mob hit, Chili soon finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest, Detective Darryl Holmes, and the very likely next target of Russian gangsters. With a hit man on his trail, Chili tries to pull together his next movie, the story of Linda Moon, a real-life singer with dreams that go further than her current gig with Chicks International, just doing Spice Girls songs. She's desperate to tear loose from her current manager, an erstwhile pimp named Raji. Orchestrating his movie as he goes along, Chili wrests the reins of Linda's singing career away from Raji, basing the plot of his new film on the action that unfolds as a result. As he fakes his way to success in the music business with his trademark aplomb, Chili manipulates his adversaries and advances his friends, showing all how to be cool when the heat's on. With his unique combination of the good, the bad, and the unexpected, Elmore Leonard has written a novel that twists and turns to the last page. From screen tests to rock sessions, from the Hills and the Valley to Hollywood and Vine, Be Cool is all new, all clever and, most definitely, all that. Elmore Leonard: Be Cool. Delacorte Press, ISBN: 0385333919 (February, 1999), 292 p., $24.95.
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