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Language English Media type Hard cover Country United States of America | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1980 Originally published 1980 Publisher Arbor House | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Suspense, Mystery Awards Grand Prix de Littérature Policière - International Category Similar El Leonard books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
City Primeval is a crime novel written by Elmore Leonard.
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Plot summary
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. When 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...