We have us a July 18 release date for Justified: City Primeval. Man, I’m looking forward to sitting down with Raylan Givens again.
“Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well. These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.”
Matthew says
Correct me if I’m wrong but did the original City Primeval novel not have Raylan Givens in it?
John Maddox Roberts says
No, it was written long before Leonard created the character of Raylan. Elmore Leonard was the gold standard for dialogue, especially criminal dialogue. He was one of the greatest mystery writers of all time, onetime president of the Mystery Writers of America, and he never wrote a mystery. You always know from the beginning who did what in a Leonard novel. The only mystery is “How are these fools going to get themselves out of this jam they got themselves into?” He also wrote good Westerns, many of them filmed: 3:10 to Yuma, Hombre, The Tall T, etc. He never visited the West. He had a stack of several years’ issues of AriΩona Highways magaΩine for reference. He was one of a kind.
JimC says
One of a kind for sure.
Quixotic Mainer says
Can’t wait!