City Primeval
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4.1 • 35 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
THE INSPIRATION FOR JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL ON FX
“As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” —Washington Post
The City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Master’s acclaimed crime novels. The “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma Wildman” and the dedicated city copy who’s determined to take him down. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TV’s Justified fame, Elmore Leonard is the equal of any writer who has ever captivated readers with dark tales of heists, hijacks, double-crosses, and murder—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker included—and nobody then or now is better.
Customer Reviews
Rough, Raw, & Well Written
This book reads like an episode of Justified; note: this is not a Raylan Givens novel, but the main character, Raymond Cruz, is suspiciously similar. I am looking forward to the FX Justified: City Primeval coming out in July, which was my motivation for reading this story. The only criticism, which is not really a critique on the book, but a critique on myself, is I didn’t respond well to 1970s Detroit racism, in which the book is wrought. However, if you want a sneak peak at the upcoming FX Justified: City Primeval, this is a fun, quick read.