Be Cool is an unforgettable, hilarious and dead-on insider's look at Hollywood as only Leonard could write it; Leonard takes readers on a back-side tour of Tinseltown's other big business--the music industry.Chili Palmer's follow-up to his smash hit film Get Leo bombed, and in Hollywood you're 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 finds himself in an unlikely alliance with one of the LAPD's finest, Detective Darryl Holmes; he also becomes the very likely next target of Russian gangsters...