Devil Red - Hap and Leonard Series 8

Zusatztext “Joe Lansdale may be Texas’s bloody answer to Mark Twain.” — The Austin Chronicle “Good! foul-mouthed fun.” — Texas Monthly “The humor and dialogue keep the narrative rocketing along.” — Entertainment Weekly   “Joe R. Lansdale’s latest fun-loving meditation on the forces of good and evil. . . .  Plenty of the trademark Hap and Leonard camaraderie! wise-cracking and profanity.” — The Free Lance-Star “If you've read more than a few words strung together by Lansdale in any given context! you're going to pick up a book with his name on the cover. . . . A new installment in the [Hap and Leonard] series is cause to rejoice.” — BookReporter   “There’s enough seriousness to make this novel stand far apart from run-of-the-mill thrillers—and enough comedy to have readers laughing through the blood spatters.” — Publishers Weekly   “Lansdale is a terrifically gifted storyteller with a sharp country boy wit.” — The Washington Post Book World   “Hap and Leonard represent the bluest of blue collar detective fiction.” — San Jose Mercury News   “Joe Lansdale is one of the greatest yarn spinners of his generation: fearless! earthy! original! manic and dreadfully funny.” — The Dallas Morning News Informationen zum Autor Joe R. Lansdale Klappentext Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.If there's one thing Hap Collins and Leonard Pine like, it's trouble-and they especially like getting paid to find it. So when their friend and sometime boss Marvin Harmon asks the boys to look into a cold-case double homicide, they're happy to oblige. It turns out that both victims were set to inherit some serious money, and one of them ran with an honest-to-goodness vampire cult. The more closely Hap and Leonard look over the crime-scene photos, the more trouble they see. The image of a red devil's head painted on a tree is just the beginning-a little research turns up a slew of murders with that same fiendish signature. And if things aren't weird enough, Leonard has taken to wearing a deestalker cap . . . Will this be the case that finally sends Hap over the edge? We were parked at the curb in Leonard’s car, sitting near a busted-out streetlight. We were looking at a house about a block up. It was a dark house on a dark street next to another dark house, and beyond that was an abandoned baseball field grown up with summer-burnt grass that had died two months back but was still standing, the tops curved over like bent sword tips. A fresh fall wind was bullying some dead leaves about and we had the windows rolled down and the air was cool and soothing. Beyond the baseball field it was dark too. The whole area wasn’t exactly what you’d call a great place to hang out. You did, there was a chance they’d find you next morning in a ditch with your throat cut, your pockets turned inside out, and sperm in your ass, or perhaps a sharp instrument. It was the kind of place where the mice belonged to gangs. But there we sat. Sacrifices to fate. I said, “I feel like a hired leg breaker.” “You are a hired leg breaker,” Leonard said. “This is pretty mean.” “He beat up an old woman, Hap. Took her money. That’s so mean the mean has to wear a hat and tie.” “A hat and tie?” “It’s an expression.” “No it’s not.” “All right. I made it up.” “Of course you did.” “Thing is,” Leonard said, “the cops didn’t do dick.” “They took him in for questioning.” “Whoop-te-doo,” Leonard said. “And it was Mrs. Johnson’s word against his and now he’s free and he’s sleeping in that house, him and his bud, and they got the old lady’s money.” “The bud didn’t hit her,” I said. “Yeah, well, the bud ought not to hang around with the wrong people.” “I hang...

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• Autori: Joe R. Lansdale
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.03.2012
• EAN: 9780307455468
• ISBN: 978-0-307-45546-8
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS; Hap and Leonard Series; Hap and Leonard; Hap and Leonard Series
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli