Books

Raylan

The Run Down.

With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky, coal mines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross $300,000, but that’s chump change compared to the quarter million a human body can get you—especially when it’s sold off piece by piece. So when Dickie and Coover Crowe, dope-dealing brothers known for sampling their own supply, decide to branch out into the body business, it’s up to U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens to stop them. But Raylan isn’t your average marshal; he’s the laconic, Stetson-wearing, fast-drawing lawman who juggles dozens of cases at a time and always shoots to kill. But by the time Raylan finds out who’s making the cuts, he’s lying naked in a bathtub, with Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys.

Published: 2011

Publisher: William Morrow

Genre: Crime

Adaptation: TV Show (Justified)

Character: Raylan Givens

The New York Times

A morally astute sharpshooter with nice Southern manners, a sense of humor and a clean cowboy hat — you don’t find men like him every day.

— The New York Times

Justified

Adapted for television from Raylan, Riding the Rap and Pronto
Starring Timothy Olyphant — Developed by Graham Yost
2010-2015 — 6 Seasons — 79 episodes