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Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale

Savage Season

A Hap and Leonard Novel (1)

Joe R. Lansdale

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 6, 2009

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Who it’s for
A darkly comic thriller where an unlikely friendship meets a get-rich scheme and bloody mayhem.
Themes
Friendship across differences, A risky money-making scam, Bloody mayhem
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Savage Season is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard 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. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet.

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Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn't been the same since.

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A darkly comic thriller where an unlikely friendship meets a get-rich scheme and bloody mayhem.

Come here for

  • Best-friend banter with a sharp edge
  • High-octane crime and dark suspense

Expect

  • Two friends who make very different kinds of trouble
  • Action and laughs tangled with a dangerous score

Where it sits

Hard-Boiled Mystery55%
Southern Fiction28%
Crime Fiction22%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Hard-Boiled Mystery
  • Suspense
  • Crime Fiction
Authors
Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
January 6, 2009
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Friendship across differences · A risky money-making scam · Bloody mayhem
Reading lane
Hard-Boiled Mystery