Joe R. Lansdale: Hap & Leonard - Blood and Lemonade (USA 2017) From the Publisher: Hap Collins is becoming a man -- just not the man he's expected to be. His East Texan childhood has been chock full of ignorant rednecks, bullies, and bigots. As a more enlightened sort, Hap went and figured out that being right is a lot less fun that kicking ass. But singlehandedly punishing the jerks of the world is a tough row to hoe. Luckily, Hap's about to meet his unlikely partner-in-crime-solving. Leonard Pine is many things Hap is not: black, gay, and surprisingly conservative. Frankly, the two young men seem ill-matched at best. But when Hap sees Leonard demolishing an angry mob with both his fists and words, it's immediately clear that they have a lot in common. Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade brings together the origins of Joe R. Lansdale's popular Texan crime-fighting duo. These new, familiar, and definitive adventures show once and for all how two pissed-off young men became one heck of a bad-ass team.
Contents: Parable of the stick -- Tire fire -- Not our kind -- Down by the riverside -- Short night -- The boy who became invisible -- Blood and lemonade -- The river of the dead -- Stopping for coffee -- Apollo red -- Coach whip -- The bottom of the world -- Squirrel hunt -- The oak and the pond. Joe R. Lansdale: Hap & Leonard - Blood and Lemonade. Tachyon Publications, ISBN: 9781616962531 (March, 2017), 234 p., $15.95.
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