City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit

<p>€œAs gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you€ll find€¦.The action never stops, the language sings and stings.€ <br />€"<em>Washington Post</em></p><p>The <em>City Primeval</em> 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€ (<em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</em>) 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 <em>Justified</em> 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.<br /></p>