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Be Cool

by Elmore Leonard · 1999

Chili Palmer seriesbook 2 of 2

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BE COOL offers a second entertaining installment in the career of Chili Palmer - originally a Miami loan-shark but now a big-shot in Hollywood. Chili gets interested in the music business acting for a girl-singer with a lot of soul. Trouble is, everything that happens to Chili strikes him as being material for another great movie ...

Genre
crimemysterythrilleradventurehumor
Themes
music
Setting
1990slos angelesnew yorknew york statemaine
Audience
picture books
Length
medium · 304 pages
Form
graphic novels

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