With his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, Joe R. Lansdale serves up a bubbling cauldron of murder and mayhem that only he could create. It is the fourth in the series of books featuring Lansdale's long time protagonists Hap and Leonard. The two characters couldn't be more different. Get this suspense and thriller narrative at Phraset.
Hap Collins is home, fresh from his stint on an offshore oil rig, bright with determination to change his life. Back in LaBorde, he finds his friend Leonard Pine grieving over the breakup of his affair with his lover Raul. Then things get serious. A local roughneck by the name of Horse Dick is dead and Leonard is implicated. Not surprisingly, the law is little use. To help his partner, Hap won't be bending the law, he'll be stomping the hell out of it. But Hap has always had to do things he doesn't like. What he does like - a lot - is Brett Sawyer, a nurse and a woman with her own past.
In this author's hands, extravagant, lovable characters mix with outrageous, despicable actions to irresistible effect. Lansdale elicits at least one good chuckle per page, and there may be no living author who commands more vernacular terms for the myriad acts available to consenting and non-consenting adults. The narrative, including a breathless finale, is droll, crude, touching and very nasty. Read this crime mystery e – novel at Phraset.
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