City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
City Primeval, Elmore Leonard
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City Primeval

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Frank Muller

Unabridged: 6 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 04/10/2012

Synopsis

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 PostThe 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.

About Elmore Leonard

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 “Fire in the Hole,” 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on November 29, 2023

A strange one A really evil, no conscience, bad guy who likes killing people is called the Oklahoma Wildman. As many people as he has killed and as many crimes as he has committed, he keeps getting away with it. He goes to court and walks. Acting police lieutenant Raymond Cruz finally comes up with id......more

Goodreads review by James on April 03, 2022

Clement Mansell styles himself as the "Oklahoma Wildman," and he openly boasts of having killed at least nine people. Prosecutors had him dead to rights for a triple murder, but his clever attorney, Carolyn Wilder, managed to get him off on a technicality. Now Mansell has killed a judge that pretty......more

Goodreads review by robin on June 06, 2023

A Western In Detroit 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......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on March 17, 2019

-Suficiente, nada más.- Género. Novela. Lo que nos cuenta. En el libro Ciudad salvaje (publicación original: City Primeval, 1980) y en Detroit, Clement Mansell asesina a un antiguo juez, junto a la mujer que lo acompañaba, mientras intentaba trabajar en una clase distinta de delito. El juez siempre es......more

Goodreads review by Ms.pegasus on January 25, 2018

I first fell in love with Elmore Leonard's writing while reading his early Westerns. The settings were so vivid it was as if he had transported himself to the location and was describing every dust mote and atmospheric shift. The characters had such authentic voices; there was never any confusion ab......more

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