City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
Fire in the Hole: and Other Stories
Both books filmed as the
TV series Justified: City Primeval (2023).
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City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
By Elmore Leonard.
Published by Mariner Books.
First published 1980
ISBN-10: 0062191357
ISBN-13: 978-0062191359
Description:
“As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find…. The
action never stops, the language sings and stings.”
– Washington Post.
Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with
murder. The cool killer is already back on the Detroit scene – thanks to some
nifty courtroom moves by his lawyer – and he's feeling invincible enough to
execute a crooked judge on a whim. Lieutenant Raymond Cruz thinks the “Oklahoma
Wildman” crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he's determined
to see that the hayseed psycho meets an end he deserves, with a gun pointed at
him. But that means a good cop, having to play somewhat fast and loose with the
rules . . . in order to maneuver Mansell into a wild Midwest showdown that he
can't walk away from.
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Fire in the Hole: and Other Stories
By Elmore Leonard.
Published by Mariner Books.
Published 2012.
ISBN-10: 0062120344
ISBN-13: 9780062120342
Description:
“[Leonard’s] most satisfying book since Out of Sight….
Top-notch work from one of our most gifted and consistently entertaining
writers.” – New York Times Book Review.
“Vintage Leonard…. Nine stories with booze and shotguns and
lowlifes…and lots of scenes that ought to be in movies.”
– Detroit Free
Press.
“If Leonard were a new kid instead of a past master, this
fiction collection would make his name.” – People.
“Rummaging through Leonard’s attic via these nine stories
revives some fond memories and turns up a couple of forgotten treasures.” – Kirkus
Reviews.
“Elmore Leonard’s 39th book ...finds one of America’s most
accomplished novelists presenting his most accomplished female characters in
years.” – USA Today.
In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore
Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York
Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and
the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis
for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up
with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal
marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,”
once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come
Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires
with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great
Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.
