City Primeval

by Elmore Leonard

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380569523
• ISBN13: 9780380569526
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

Showdown with the Wildman

Clement Mansell is a killer without a conscious, and the guts to match. Is he going to blink? And if he does, the question is who's going to make him do it? Raymond Cruz, the cop who is nearly as crazy as he is? Carolyn Wilder, his attorney who is as hard as nails? or some one else? Each page is more intense than the one before.