City Primeval

by Elmore Leonard

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380569523
• ISBN13: 9780380569526
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

High Noon in Detroit, The Hunted and The Switch

I have never been disappointed with Elmore Leonard and though some books are better than others they are all fives. If one has read any of Leonard's older Westerns you can,in these three books, his morphing over to modern day crime from early westerns, that directly links the good and evil of crime, and the consistancy of psychopaths, past and present. Good guy, bad guy, threatened heroine and a plot, that's it. Leonard always creates an original and believable plot. His books are not mystery's they are the development of characters, portrayed in pitch perfect dialogue, that come together in believable random ways. You know roughly how they will end, good wins and bad loses, but the trip, with meandering and fascinating building block incidents, are a pleasure. The psychological depth that he gives his characters always ring true.

Showdown with the Wildman

Clement Mansell is a killer without a conscious, and the guts to match. Is he going to blink? And if he does, the question is who's going to make him do it? Raymond Cruz, the cop who is nearly as crazy as he is? Carolyn Wilder, his attorney who is as hard as nails? or some one else? Each page is more intense than the one before.