THE INSPIRATION FOR JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVALย ON FX
โAs gritty and hard-driving a thriller as youโll find....The action never stops, the language sings and stings.โ โWashington Post
The City Primeval in Elmore Leonardโs relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the authorโs much-maligned hometown and the setting for many of the Grand Masterโs acclaimed crime novels. The โAlexander the Great of crime fictionโ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing โOklahoma Wildmanโ and the dedicated city copy whoโs determined to take him down. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of TVโs Justified fame, Elmore Leonard is the equal of any writer who has ever captivated readers with dark tales of heists, hijacks, double-crosses, and murderโJohn D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker includedโand nobody then or now is better.
Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story โFire in the Hole,โ and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.
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