City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit
Fire in the Hole: and Other Stories
Both books filmed as the TV series Justified:
City Primeval (2023).
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.
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 thibk.
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.
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