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City Primeval
City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit | Elmore Leonard
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“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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JoeMo
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I listened to this audiobook before tuning in for the Justified adaptation. Overall, this was some mindless fun. If you enjoy stories where cops square off against overconfident baddies, you‘ll enjoy this too!

#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 1y
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Daisey
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Switching mostly between the actions of a man who kills without remorse and the cop trying to get the evidence to put him away along with some of the women in their lives, this was an enthralling change of pace in my reading. Although set in Detroit in the 1970s, it reads like a western. I also thought the audio narration by Frank Muller was fantastic.

#1001books #audiobook

vivastory I read this a couple of yrs ago & thought it was fantastic 2y
Daisey @vivastory I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. 2y
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arubabookwoman
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In these trying times, I find myself only able to read books not requiring a lot of concentration or effort to read. I‘ve never read anything by Elmore Leonard, and this is on the #1001 list so I picked it up. It took a few pages to get into the rhythm of Leonard‘s prose and the story he‘s telling, but once I was in it was all forward flow. A brutal story full of low-life‘s, but also lots of humor. He is a great prose stylist. I‘ll be readingmore.

vivastory I really liked this one 6y
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Kristelh
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#Marchtbr, #readingresolutions @Jess7 #Reading1001. I‘ve got to finish Blonde. Been putting that one off too long.

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AshleyHoss820
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Mehso-so

88/1,001 #1001Books