City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit - Couverture souple

Leonard, Elmore

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006008958X ISBN 13 : 9780060089580

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Leonard Elmore

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“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.

Quatrième de couverture :

Clement Mansell knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The seriously crazed killer is already back on the Detroit streets -- thanks to some nifty courtroom moves by his crafty looker of a lawyer -- and he's feeling invincible enough to execute a crooked Motown judge on a whim. Homicide Detective Raymond Cruz thinks the "Oklahoma Wildman" crossed the line long before this latest outrage, and he's determined to see that the hayseed psycho does not slip through the legal system's loopholes a second time. But that means a good cop is going to have to play somewhat fast and loose with the rules -- in order to maneuver Mansell into a wild Midwest showdown that he won't be walking away from.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 006008958X
• ISBN 13: 9780060089580
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 368