Savage Season - (Hap and Leonard) by Joe R Lansdale (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This re-release of the cult classic offers a rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Savage Season </i>is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series <i>Hap and Leonard</i></b> <p/>A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.</p><p>Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, <i> Savage Season </i>is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn't been the same since.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Hilarious. . . . Lansdale is a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit."--<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>"For sheer pace, humor, and style, the winner is <b>Savage Season</b>."--<i>Time Out New York</i>"The most consistently original and originally visceral writer the great state of Texas (or any other state for that matter) has seen in a score of flashpoint summers."--<i>Austin Chronicle</i> "Lansdale has an unsettling sensibility. Be thankful he crafts such wild tall tales."--<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. <p/>Lansdale has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. <p/>A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story Incident On and Off a Mountain Road was adapted to film for Showtime's Masters of Horror. He is currently co-producing a TV series, Hap and Leonard for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. <p/>Lansdale is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.</p>
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