| City Primeval | |
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| Author(s) | Elmore Leonard |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Arbor House |
| Publication date | 1980 |
| Media type | Hard cover |
City Primeval is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard.
The original novel takes place in Detroit and tells the story of a seriously crazed 'Oklahoma Wildman' Clement Mansell who knows how easy it is to get away with murder - thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his beautiful, tough-as-nails lawyer Carolyn Wilder. But now the killer's senseless execution of a crooked Motown judge has inflamed the ire of homicide Detective Raymond Cruz. A good cop who believes in old-fashioned justice. While Mansell tries to extort money from the 'Albanian' Skender Lulgjaraj, Cruz isn't about to let Mansell slip through the legal system's gaping holes a second time. Even if that means maneuvering the psycho into a wild Midwest showdown that only one of them is going to be walking away from...