Vanilla Ride

Zusatztext   "Anything but ordinary crime writing by one of the best in the business."-- Los Angeles Times   "Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain."-- Austin Chronicle   "The best crime novel I've read in years."--John Weisman! The Washington Times   "[Joe Lansdale] is one of the greatest yarn spinners of his generation: fearless! earthy! original! manic and dreadfully funny."-- Dallas Morning News “Every page of this book brims with humor and character and most of all! kick ass story telling.”--Michael Connelly   "There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs! and nothing it doesn't."--Christopher Moore! author of A Dirty Job and Fool   "Hilariously funny! to the point that your heart almost stops while you are laughing.”— Bookreporter   “The Hap and Leonard books explore questions of race! sexuality and religion in modern red-state America. Hap is a white heterosexual good old boy. Leonard is a black homosexual Vietnam vet. . . . Laughter is the common bond.”— Texas Observer Informationen zum Autor Joe R. Lansdale Klappentext Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the kings of East Texas mischief and mayhem, return in this full-throttle thriller to face off with the Dixie Mafia. When Leonard is asked to rescue a teenage girl from a lowly drug dealer, he gladly agrees and invites Hap along for the ride. Everything goes according to plan, until they find out the dealer is a member of the Dixie mafia. A wild gun fight ensues, after which Hap and Leonard are arrested. Turns out, however, that the law needs a favor and if Hap and Leonard can do the deed they'll be free roam. There's one problem the Dixie Mafia's new hired gun-the legendary assassin Vanilla Ride. Filled with breakneck action, gut-busting laughs, and one gigantic crocodile, this hilarious novel is as hot as a habanero pepper. Leseprobe 1 I hadn't been shot at in a while, and no one had hit me in the head for a whole month or two. It was kind of a record, and I was starting to feel special. Brett and I were upstairs in our little rented house, lying in bed, breathing hard, having just arrived at the finish line of a slow, sweet race that at times can seem like a competitive sport, but when played right, even when you're the last to arrive, can make you feel like a winner. In that moment, life was good. Brett sat up and fluffed her pillow behind her back and pushed her long bloodred hair to the side with one hand, shoved her chest forward in a way that made me feel mighty lucky, said, "I haven't had that much fun since I pistol-whipped a redheaded midget." "You don't know how romantic that makes me feel," I said. "I think Little Hap just went looking for a place to hide." "I thought he just came out of hiding," she said, and winked at me. Thing was, she actually had pistol-whipped a midget. I was there. She was trying to find her daughter and save her life, but still, it was ugly, and I was a party to it. I will say this, however, in favor of the midget: he took his beating with stoic pride and refused to take it while wearing his cowboy hat, an expensive Stetson. He wanted it right on the skull and that's where he got it. "You know, I think they prefer being called dwarf instead of midget , or Little People ," I said. "No kidding. I don't know about the rest of them, but the one I worked over, I just call him Pistol-Whipped." "Do you ever feel bad about it?" "Nope." "He died, you know." "Not from the pistol whipping." This was also true. He ended up dead another way, but, man, that had been some pistol whipping. She had also set her ex-husband's...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joe R. Lansdale
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.07.2010
• EAN: 9780307455451
• ISBN: 978-0-307-45545-1
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 134 mm x 204 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Hap and Leonard Series; Hap and Leonard; Hap and Leonard Series
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli