Devil Red, Joe R. Lansdale
Devil Red, Joe R. Lansdale
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Devil Red

Author: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2020


Synopsis

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?

About Joe R. Lansdale

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.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.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.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.www.joerlansdale.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 31, 2016

Take a middle-aged redneck in East Texas with a mouthy gay black best friend, give them both an unerring instinct for irritating the living hell out of dangerous people and putting themselves in shitty situations, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. And a highly entertaining crime series. Hap and......more

Goodreads review by Dave on November 18, 2022

Initial Thoughts In case you been hiding under a rock, you should know I'm a huge fan of Joe Lansdale's sen-f'in-sational Hap and Leonard series. I tore through the first seven books in this series like a wolverine with rabbies. There's nothing quite like the finest redneck noir money can buy. I......more

Goodreads review by Hunter on June 26, 2016

Joe Lansdale is arguably the best writer alive - in any genre. I've been a huge fan of his Hap & Leonard series for years, and this is possibly the best one yet.......more

Goodreads review by James on November 01, 2012

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are fresh off of kicking the crap out of a couple of thugs who stole $87.00 from a defenseless old woman when their some-time employer, Marvin Hanson, asks them to assist in an investigation. A young man and woman have been brutally murdered. The police have written off......more

Goodreads review by Marvin on March 18, 2011

Another great book in Joe R. Lansdale's series about Hap and Leonard, the mystery world's most unlikely couple. Hap, a white straight liberal who wonders why people just can't get along and Leonard, a black gay Vietnam veteran who votes Republican and equates right and wrong with beating the crap ou......more


Quotes

“The humor and dialogue keep the narrative rocketing along.” —Entertainment Weekly“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