Olyphant starred in FX's modern-day western series, "Justified", as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, who is reassigned to his native Eastern Kentucky following a "justified", but questionable, quick-draw shooting of a criminal in Miami. There, he encounters many outlaw figures from his childhood, including his father and Boyd Crowder, with whom he dug coal as a teenager. Olyphant was initially drawn to "the ease and the charm and the sort of old-fashionedness" of the character but has said he does not consider him a "good guy." The character of Raylan Givens was created by novelist Elmore Leonard, appearing in his short story "Fire in the Hole" (2001) and the novels "Pronto" (1993) and "Riding the Rap" (1995). Leonard was an executive producer of "Justified" and befriended Olyphant; his final novel, "Raylan" (2012), was inspired by the television show.