City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit – The Acclaimed Noir Thriller That Inspired Justified:

€œAs 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 €œAlexander the Great of crime fiction€ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing €œOklahoma 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.