Joe R. Lansdale: Schlechtes Chili

Dt. v. Christian Jentzsch. D 2012, 319 S., Pb, € 10.27
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Hap Collins wundert sich während eines Krankenhausaufenthalts, dass sein bester Freund Leonard Pine ihn nicht besucht. Es stellt sich heraus, dass Leonard als Hauptverdächtiger in einem Mordfall gilt. Boyfriend Raul hat Leonard für einen anderen Typen verlassen. Und daraufhin hat ihm Leonard in einem Motorradfahrerclub eine unschöne Szene geliefert, an deren Ende Leonard seinem Konkurrenten mit dem Besenstiel eine übergebraten hat. Andertags wird Rauls Neuer tot aufgefunden. Natürlich steht nun Leonard ganz oben auf der Verdächtigenliste. Doch dieser hat sich aus dem Staub gemacht. Hap weiß, wo er zu suchen hat. Und natürlich lässt er seinen besten Freund nicht im Stich. Mehr oder weniger gemeinsam nehmen sie Ermittlungen auf, die in seltsame, abwegige Bereiche der Pornografie führen.

Joe R. Lansdale: Vanilla Ride

A Hap and Leonard Novel 7. USA 2010, 243 pp., brochure, € 14.49
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In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine - best friends, freelance trouble-makers, and tough guys with good intentions - find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia. Hap is an East Texas smart mouth with a weakness for southern women. Leonard is a gay, black veteran pining for a lost love. They're not the makings of your typical dynamic duo, but never underestimate the power of a shared affinity for stirring up trouble and causing mayhem. When an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer, he gladly agrees and, of course, invites Hap along for the fun. Even though the dealer may be lowly, he is on the bottom rung of the Dixie Mafia, and when Hap and Leonard come calling, the Mafia feels a little payback is in order. Cars crash, shotguns blast, and people die, but Hap and Leonard come out on top.

Joe R. Lansdale: Rumble Tumble

A Hap and Leonard Novel (V). USA 2009 (Reprint), 242 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune. Even though a midlife crisis just crashed into Hap Collins like a runaway pickup, he's still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and, of course, he's got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer. Things hit a new low, however, when Brett's daughter, Tillie, who's been walking on the wrong side of the law, suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It won't be easy - it never is - but nothing is going to stop Hap and Leonard as they hit the road destined for Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma, to shake things up. And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel, this promises to be a wild ride.

Joe R. Lansdale: The Two-Bear Mambo

A Hap and Leonard Novel (III). USA 2009, 273 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Veteran Lansdale brings back his incomparable Texas team of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine for an encore that's just as funny and violent and gripping as their first appearance. Police Lt. Marve Hanson agrees to forget the duo's role in the Christmas Eve torching of a crack house if they go to the small East-Texas town of Grovetown to find his girlfriend, Florida Grange, a lawyer who was investigating the jailhouse death of a black man who possessed some priceless merchandise. The Klan is alive and well in Grovestown and Hap, who is white, and Leonard, who is black and gay and habitually introduces himself as »The Smartest Nigger in the World«, don't endear themselves to the locals. But they do track Florida to a dilapidated trailer park, where her trail ends. With murder on their minds, Hap and Leonard set out to investigate.

Joe R. Lansdale: Captains Outrageous

A Hap and Leonard Novel (VI). USA 2009, 319 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his 7-foot strong-arm, an octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo. When Hap Collins saves the life of his employer's daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean cruise, and he convinces his best friend, Leonard Pine, to come along. However, when the cruise sails on without them, stranding them in Playa del Carmen with nothing but their misfortune and Leonard's ridiculous new hat, the two quickly find themselves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence. When they return to East Texas, they find that trouble has beaten them back, and when trouble's around it doesn't take long for Hap and Leonard to find it.

Joe R. Lansdale: Vanilla Ride

USA 2009, 246 pp., hardbound, € 22.95
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In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine - best friends, freelance trouble-makers, and tough guys with good intentions - find themselves in the crosshairs of the Dixie Mafia. Hap is an East Texas smart mouth with a weakness for southern women. Leonard is a gay, black veteran pining for a lost love. They're not the makings of your typical dynamic duo, but never underestimate the power of a shared affinity for stirring up trouble and causing mayhem. When an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer, he gladly agrees and, of course, invites Hap along for the fun. Even though the dealer may be lowly, he is on the bottom rung of the Dixie Mafia, and when Hap and Leonard come calling, the Mafia feels a little payback is in order. Cars crash, shotguns blast, and people die, but Hap and Leonard come out on top.

Joe R. Lansdale: Bad Chili

A Hap and Leonard Novel (IV), USA 2009, 292 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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With his trademark knack for gut-busting laughter and head-splitting action, the author serves up a bubbling cauldron of murder and mayhem that only he could create. Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off-shore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he's living, and shoot the straight and narrow. That is until the man who stole Leonard Pine's boyfriend turns up headless in a ditch and Leonard gets fingered for the murder. Hap vows to clear Leonard's name, but things only get more complicated when another body turns up - this time it's Leonard's ex. To the police it is just a matter of gay-biker infighting, but to Hap and Leonard murder is always serious business, and these hit a little too close to home.

Joe R. Lansdale: Savage Season

The First Hap and Leonard Novel. USA 2009, 178 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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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. 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. Loenard is a gay, black Vietnam veteran. Together, they stir up more commotion than a firestorm. But that's just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising huge score, Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chockful of action and laughs, this first installation of the Hap and Leonard series is a masterpiece of black suspense that introduces the two protagonists to the thriller scene.

Joe R. Lansdale: Mucho Mojo

A Hap and Leonard Novel. USA 2009, 308 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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In the 2nd installment of the Hap Collins-Leonard Pine series, Leonard is still recuperating from the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend, and when the two are cleaning out the rundown house that Leonard has inherited they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floorboards - a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard, being a black man in east Texas, persuades him that this is not a good idea. Now it's up to them to prove that Chester wasn't responsible for a string of child murders by finding the real killer. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.

Joe R. Lansdale: Wilder Winter

Dt.v. R.Betzenbichler & K.Mrugalla. D 2006, 196 S., Broschur, € 13.26
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Zwei ungleiche Freunde haben sich da gefunden: Hap Collins ist ein weißer Hetero und hat sich vor dem Vietnamkrieg gedrückt. Leonard Pine ist ein schwuler Schwarzer und hat sich im Vietnamkrieg verdient gemacht. Für beide gilt: die Zeiten waren schon einmal besser. Im Moment halten sie sich mit Aushilfsarbeiten auf texanischen Feldern über Wasser. Als eines Tages Haps Ex-Frau und ein paar ehemalige Kumpels von Hap aufkreuzen, bedeutet das nichts als Ärger. Die ganze Truppe hat sich dem Kampf gegen das Establishment verschrieben. Dafür brauchen sie dringend Geld, haben auch eine Idee, wie sie es sich beschaffen können. Doch Hap spielt nicht mit. Die Zeiten haben sich geändert. Aber Leonard wusste es von Anfang an: wo Trudy ist, gibt's Ärger. Es steht ein wilder Winter an.