Justified

If I haven't made it clear yet, I love the television show Justified. The fact I adore Timothy Olyphant is part of that, but not all. The show is well written, the relationship between Raylan and Boyd is one of the best on tv, and the willingness to engage in gun battle in every episode speaks to my bloodthirsty side. I actually preferred season one but that's because the least interesting character on the show – that would be Winona – had too big of a role in season two. It's also because the season two villain was uneven for me. Despite all that, I think it's one of the best shows on.

I also like that the show grew out of a short story by Elmore Leonard. I recently read an interview (which I can't find or I'd link to it) that talked about how the series borrowed from the short and now Leonard borrows from the show, which is why I got all tingly when I saw this new book release:

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.

The bad guys are mostly gals this time around: Layla, the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand a piece; Carol Conlan, a hard-charging coal-mine executive not above ordering a cohort to shoot point-blank a man who's standing in her way; and Jackie Nevada, a beautiful sometime college student who can outplay anyone at the poker table and who suddenly finds herself being tracked by a handsome U.S. marshal.

Sold!