Honky tonk samurai
By: Joe R. Lansdale
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Hap and Leonard novel
Publisher: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780316329408
Subjects: Hap Collins (Fictitious character); Leonard Pine (Fictitious character); Private investigators; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Fiction
Description: Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The story starts simply enough when Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet and Republican with an addiction to Dr. Pepper, are working a freelance surveillance job in East Texas. The uneventful stakeout is coming to an end when the pair witness a man abusing his dog. Leonard takes matters into his own fists, and now the bruised dog abuser wants to press charges. One week later, a woman named Lilly Buckner drops by their new PI office with a proposition: find her missing granddaughter, or she'll turn in a video of Leonard beating the dog abuser. The pair agrees to take on the cold case and soon discover that the used car dealership where her granddaughter worked is actually a front for a prostitution ring. The mystery of her disappearance only deepens from there.