off with it, for which Chili Palmer shoots him in the scalp, for which Ray Bones never forgives him.

His Ten Rules are in full effect here and they contribute to a rollicking, roller-coastering read that completely blew me away when I read it for the first time (and the second time, and the third). The book for obvious reasons makes a lot of film references which might date it a bit - however if anything it helps ground it, and although it is set in that world it reads like film nothing slow or extra padding it still is as concise as I remember the film.Some, I've even seen scripts where I know words weren't spelled right and there was hardly any commas in it. Something that was peppered throughout the text, that readers will piece together in bits slowly, was turned into a final reveal at the end of the movie.

You have no idea what is going to happen next in Leonard's books and the characters really become alive as a result. Not long after I moved out here, I ran into a nun who, seconds after she found out what I did for a living, pitched me her movie idea.He's funny, clever, has great insight into his characters, and his stories move so briskly that there isn't a wasted paragraph in the book. This book has a great clue to how to disappear completely if you have a large debt which you cannot pay. other the story of a guy who comes to Los Angeles to collect a debt from a dry cleaner named Leo who died in a plane crash but didn't really. Unexpectedly Chili discovers Leo is alive and living in Las Vegas, with the insurance money, having deserted Fay. In 1995, the novel was adapted into an eponymous film, and in 2017 it was adapted into a television series of the same name.