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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 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 “Alexander the Great of crime fiction” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) shines in these urban mean streets, setting up a downtown showdown between the psychopathic, thrill-killing “Oklahoma 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.
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"This is vintage Elmore Leonard and read wonderully by the late Frank Muller. Word is that there's going to be another season of "Justified" based on this book. Hope so. Thumbs up. "
— Eric Bergerud (5 out of 5 stars)
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“A marvelous writer…A fast pace, crackling dialogue, and dark ironies [are what] we’ve come to expect from every Elmore Leonard novel.”
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“As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find…The action never stops, the language sings and stings.”
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“Ranks with his very best.”
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“The poet laureate of southeast Michigan’s sinister side…City Primeval is one of his best.”
— Detroit Free Press
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Ilkka Ahtaja, 1/15/2023
About Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) wrote more than fifty books during his highly successful career, including the bestsellers Djibouti, Road Dogs, Mr. Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, and the critically acclaimed collection of short stories, When the Women Come Out to Dance. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight, and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. He was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America.
About Frank Muller
Frank Muller (1951–2008) was an Audie Award–winning narrator. A classically trained actor, Frank appeared on both television and the stage. His credits include Hamlet, The Crucible, The Taming of the Shrew, The Importance of Being Earnest, Law & Order, All My Children, and many, many more. In 1999 Frank was awarded the AudioFile Lifetime Achievement Award, the top honor in the audiobook community. He has also won twenty-three Earphones Awards.