With Justified: City Primeval, Givens replacing the more generic Cruz as the main cop hero vastly improves the story. "Justified" & "City Primeval," Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together He's not even always aware of his own rage. Givens is fueled by a deep core of rage that his enemies often either sense or tragically underestimate, making him the most dangerous guy in the room. As played with a sly comedic edge by Timothy Olyphant, Givens is a walking anomaly – one of the last old-school cowboys that both colleagues and criminals fear might shoot before he thinks. Raylan Givens is another lawman character created by Leonard who became the star of the Justified TV series. Homicide detective Raymond Cruz becomes Mansell's nemesis as he pursues Mansell and, determined to stop his rampage, starts to manipulate circumstances to drive Mansell into a direct confrontation with him. Here, gleefully unrepentant career criminal and killer "Oklahoma Wildman" Clement Mansell murders a corrupt judge in a road rage and finds the judge's ledger containing the activities of all the corrupt key figures in the city and tries to extort an Albanian gangster with it. It solidifies many of the common tropes in Leonard's crime novels: an arrogant, psychopathic criminal, the relentless cop who's out to stop him, and the supporting cast of orbiting eccentrics, allies, and accomplices around them. City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit is considered by Leonard fans as the jewel in the crown of his crime novel catalogue.
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