Hap and Leonard

[STARRED REVIEW] "Showcases some of Lansdale's most personal and reflective writing to date." --Publishers Weekly "If Frank Dobie is the Lone Star State's Homer, if Larry McMurtry is the Texas equivalent of Henry James, then Joe R. Lansdale has to be the Mark Twain behind the pine curtain. No other writer--in Texas or any other state in the union--can switch between gut-bursting humor and nail-biting suspense with as much heart and grace as Lansdale . . . Blood and Lemonade is a must-have for just about everyone." --Texas Books in Review

"Joe R. Lansdale's Blood and Lemonade is a masterpiece of addictive and stylistic storytelling." --Risingshadow

"Joe Lansdale is our East Texas Hemingway, and here's another example of what makes him great. In Hap & Leonard: Blood and Lemonade, he carves out beauty with plain words and direct sentences. Some of the stories in this mosaic novel are horrifying, others gritty, sad, thrilling, and funny, but all of them are beautiful. I ate it up." --Daryl Gregory, author of Spoonbenders and We Are All Completely Fine

"A brilliant 'mosaic' novel. An amazingly vivid style that feels like Hemingway. Themes that are especially important for our time. With these early adventures of his compelling Hap and Leonard characters, Joe. R. Lansdale hits a new high." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art

"Blood and Lemonade is the best of Lansdale and the best of Hap and Leonard. As urgent as it is timeless. As fun as it is thoughtful. It haunts you while it kicks your ass. Joe never lets you down, just shows you over and over why he's the best." --Jim Mickle, director of Cold in July

"Magnificent storytelling." --Char's Horror Corner

"Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade is something truly special. You are going to love it" --Horror Drive-In

"The dialogue is pitch perfect . . . thoughtful, rather clever, and with enough bullets and banter to satisfy the most demanding reader." --Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews

"When you come right down to it, this may be my favorite Hap and Leonard book ever, and that's saying a lot." --Chet Williamson, author of Psycho Sanitarium

"Everything here is written in Lansdale's inimitable style of down-home East Texas storytelling, and everything is eminently readable and enjoyable. There's humor, there's sadness, there's blood, and there's lemonade. And some cussing, too. Great stuff, irresistible reading." --Bill Crider, Pop Culture Magazine

"Exceptional . . . Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade is a wonderful piece of storytelling, and a worthy addition to a great series." --October Country

"The reason Lansdale can get away with outrageous literary behavior the way he does is because at the center of his every story lie the beating hearts of characters who are as true and honest a reflection of a real person as Lansdale can make them . . . Highly recommended." --Fantasy & Science Fiction

Praise for Hap and Leonard

"Seven laid-back adventures, one of them brand new, for "freelance troubleshooter" and good old boy Hap Collins and his gay black Republican partner Leonard Pine. . . . No one currently working the field demonstrates more convincingly and joyously the deep affinity between pulp fiction and the American tall tale." --Kirkus

[STARRED REVIEW] "Last seen in the novel Honky Tonk Samurai, Lansdale's incomparable East Texas crime fighting duo show their chops in this remarkable story collection. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"As Mr. Lansdale might say, "This was more fun than rolling down a hill with a bunch of armadillos." --Horror Novel Reviews

"East Texas charm, profane wit, and strong characterization, with enough snappy dialogue to keep a smile on your face . . . excellent entertainment, edge-of-your-seat action one minute, gut-busting humor" --Adventures in Genre Fiction

"For those new to either Lansdale or the series, this latest collection is an excellent introduction to the kind of trouble these two often find themselves in; all the while exchanging some of the funniest, lovingly antagonistic, and memorial dialogue of any crime series." --Bookgasm

Praise for Joe R. Lansdale

"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." --New York Times Book Review

"An American original" --Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box

"A terrifically gifted storyteller." --Washington Post Book Review

"Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. --Los Angeles Times

"A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail." --Entertainment Weekly

"Lansdale is an immense talent." --Booklist

"Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts." --Houston Chronicle

"Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk...sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable." --Austin Chronicle Praise for Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade [STARRED REVIEW] "Showcases some of Lansdale's most personal and reflective writing to date." --Publishers Weekly

"If Frank Dobie is the Lone Star State's Homer, if Larry McMurtry is the Texas equivalent of Henry James, then Joe R. Lansdale has to be the Mark Twain behind the pine curtain. No other writer--in Texas or any other state in the union--can switch between gut-bursting humor and nail-biting suspense with as much heart and grace as Lansdale . . . Blood and Lemonade is a must-have for just about everyone." --Texas Books in Review

"Joe R. Lansdale's Blood and Lemonade is a masterpiece of addictive and stylistic storytelling." --Risingshadow

"Joe Lansdale is our East Texas Hemingway, and here's another example of what makes him great. In Hap & Leonard: Blood and Lemonade, he carves out beauty with plain words and direct sentences. Some of the stories in this mosaic novel are horrifying, others gritty, sad, thrilling, and funny, but all of them are beautiful. I ate it up." --Daryl Gregory, author of Spoonbenders and We Are All Completely Fine

"A brilliant 'mosaic' novel. An amazingly vivid style that feels like Hemingway. Themes that are especially important for our time. With these early adventures of his compelling Hap and Leonard characters, Joe. R. Lansdale hits a new high." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art

"Blood and Lemonade is the best of Lansdale and the best of Hap and Leonard. As urgent as it is timeless. As fun as it is thoughtful. It haunts you while it kicks your ass. Joe never lets you down, just shows you over and over why he's the best." --Jim Mickle, director of Cold in July

"Magnificent storytelling." --Char's Horror Corner

"Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade is something truly special. You are going to love it" --Horror Drive-In

"The dialogue is pitch perfect . . . thoughtful, rather clever, and with enough bullets and banter to satisfy the most demanding reader." --Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviews

"When you come right down to it, this may be my favorite Hap and Leonard book ever, and that's saying a lot." --Chet Williamson, author of Psycho Sanitarium

"Everything here is written in Lansdale's inimitable style of down-home East Texas storytelling, and everything is eminently readable and enjoyable. There's humor, there's sadness, there's blood, and there's lemonade. And some cussing, too. Great stuff, irresistible reading." --Bill Crider, Pop Culture Magazine

"Exceptional . . . Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade is a wonderful piece of storytelling, and a worthy addition to a great series." --October Country

"The reason Lansdale can get away with outrageous literary behavior the way he does is because at the center of his every story lie the beating hearts of characters who are as true and honest a reflection of a real person as Lansdale can make them . . . Highly recommended." --Fantasy & Science Fiction

Praise for Hap and Leonard

"Seven laid-back adventures, one of them brand new, for "freelance troubleshooter" and good old boy Hap Collins and his gay black Republican partner Leonard Pine. . . . No one currently working the field demonstrates more convincingly and joyously the deep affinity between pulp fiction and the American tall tale." --Kirkus

[STARRED REVIEW] "Last seen in the novel Honky Tonk Samurai, Lansdale's incomparable East Texas crime fighting duo show their chops in this remarkable story collection. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"As Mr. Lansdale might say, "This was more fun than rolling down a hill with a bunch of armadillos." --Horror Novel Reviews

"East Texas charm, profane wit, and strong characterization, with enough snappy dialogue to keep a smile on your face . . . excellent entertainment, edge-of-your-seat action one minute, gut-busting humor" --Adventures in Genre Fiction

"For those new to either Lansdale or the series, this latest collection is an excellent introduction to the kind of trouble these two often find themselves in; all the while exchanging some of the funniest, lovingly antagonistic, and memorial dialogue of any crime series." --Bookgasm

Praise for Joe R. Lansdale

"A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace." --New York Times Book Review

"An American original" --Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box

"A terrifically gifted storyteller." --Washington Post Book Review

"Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. --Los Angeles Times

"A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail." --Entertainment Weekly

"Lansdale is an immense talent." --Booklist

"Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts." --Houston Chronicle

"Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk...sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable." --Austin Chronicle Praise for Hap and Leonard Seven laid-back adventures, one of them brand new, for freelance troubleshooter and good old boy Hap Collins and his gay black Republican partner Leonard Pine. . . . No one currently working the field demonstrates more convincingly and joyously the deep affinity between pulp fiction and the American tall tale. Kirkus [STAR] Last seen in the novel Honky Tonk Samurai, Lansdale s incomparable East Texas crime fighting duo show their chops in this remarkable story collection. Hap Collins, a straight, white liberal, and Leonard Pine, a black, gay conservative, have long challenged genre conventions, and the friendship and camaraderie between these two hard cases as they suit up against injustice and hypocrisy is at the heart of these seven tales. In the novella Hyenas, the boys help save a client s impressionable younger brother from the clutches of a group of psychotic robbers. Dead Aim finds the pair taking on the Dixie Mafia after a seemingly straightforward cheating spouse case gets a tad more complicated. Not Our Kind is set against the backdrop of the late 1960s, when a teenage Hap first befriends Leonard and faces the racism and intolerance of his peers up close. Readers can also look forward to the debut of the TV show Hap and Leonard on the Sundance Channel in March. Publishers Weekly, starred review An essential Hap and Leonard addition The Novel Pursuit As Mr. Lansdale might say, This was more fun than rolling down a hill with a bunch of armadillos. Horror Novel Reviews . . . it's great to have all of these wonderful stories together in one nifty volume Horror Drive-In Highly entertaining Sons of Spade a perfect introduction Booklist East Texas charm, profane wit, and strong characterization, with enough snappy dialogue to keep a smile on your face . . . excellent entertainment, edge-of-your-seat action one minute, gut-busting humor Adventures in Genre Fiction This collection is crime/pulp fiction at its best and most captivating. Risingshadow short, concentrated bursts of everything that makes the series so good. October Country If you find yourself on the wrong side of Hap and Leonard, be cautious, because they are quicker than a rattlesnake, and their bite is just as bad. If you find yourself an innocent bystander looking for a great book to read, you ve come to the right place. Killer Nashville If you are a fan of the genre and looking for a new character to get into, Hap and Leonard won t steer you wrong. LitReactor For those new to either Lansdale or the series, this latest collection is an excellent introduction to the kind of trouble these two often find themselves in; all the while exchanging some of the funniest, lovingly antagonistic, and memorial dialogue of any crime series. Bookgasm If you haven t read any of the dozen or so Hap and Leonard novels, start here. Lone Star Literary Praise for Joe R. Lansdale A folklorist s eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur s sense of pace. New York Times Book Review "An American original" -Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box A terrifically gifted storyteller. Washington Post Book Review Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. Los Angeles Times A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail. Entertainment Weekly "Lansdale is an immense talent." Booklist Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts. Houston Chronicle Lansdale s been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk...sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable. Austin Chronicle Praise for Cold in July ...impressive Realism-meets-Road House-circa 89 fight-scenes, tailings, and gunfights.... You re sure to finish this book fast, but you re also sure to think on it slowly. Lit Reactor One of the benefits of Cold in July being made into an independent movie (adapted by screenwriter/actor Nick Damici and directed by Jim Mickle) is this new, movie tie-in edition from Tachyon, Joe R. Landsdale s publisher....a finely told crime story. Bookgasm ...a crime fiction classic. The Novel Pursuit "It's a major novel, full of darkness, humor, passion, and truth." Lewis Shiner, author of Glimpses and Mozart in Mirroshades (with Bruce Sterling) "I can't think of a more remarkable suspense novel in the last few years. Cold in July has it all...." Ed Gorman, author of The Poker Club "