Devil Red
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4.4 • 37 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Lansdale's rollicking eighth Hap and Leonard novel (after Vanilla Ride), the East Texas crime-fighting duo, Hap Collins (white and straight) and his partner, Leonard Pine (black and gay), look into a two-year-old unsolved murder. They step into the usual hornet's nest of troubles when they spot a devil's head scrawled in blood in crime-scene photos. It's the tag of a merciless mass murderer who has tallied numerous hits across the country, and as their investigation broadens, the pair discovers that Devil Red who could be one of the countless criminals they've cheesed off in previous capers is now hot on their trails. Lansdale delivers his patented blend of hard-boiled mayhem and laconic humor, leavened with reflections on mortality, morality, sex, and brotherhood. 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.
Customer Reviews
Pretty good detective story
Pretty good detective story going on in this one, sets up the characters for a new stage, but like most Hap & Leonard books the plot falls apart a third of the way through and the only solution to any problem whatsoever is violence. The drunk rich lady has some of the worst and most jarringly out of character dialogue I’ve ever read in a published piece of fiction.