City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit [B0440]

1980 PB in excellent condition. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Hard-boiled crime fiction, from a master. This is from the Detroit series, published in 1980."; "Solid read. Everything you could want from a crime drama: morally-ambiguous cop, casually-evil bad guy, the damsel in distress too young to know better. Not too much plot or side story, just a cut & dry story with a satisfying ending. A nice little piece of 70s noir."; "Absolutely the best book Elmore Leonard ever wrote. The first 2 chapters are the best opening chapters I have ever read and I've read a lot."; "The American novelist Elmore Leonard (1925-2013) began his career as a writer of genre westerns but achieved greater renown as a writer of crime fiction. Leonard's crime novels have many different settings but none more so than Detroit, his beloved home. Leonard's is a poet of Detroit streets."