Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard

Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating “cool” characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka looks at what makes the dope—dealers, bookies, grifters, financial advisors, talent agents, shady attorneys, hookers, models, and crooked cops of Leonard's world cool. They may be nefarious, b...