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Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard Book 11) by [Joe R. Lansdale]

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Edgar Award-winner and fan favorite Joe R. Lansdale is back with Hap and Leonard's latest caper: investigating the disappearance of a revivalist cult leader's daughter.

Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair-Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam vet and Republican-but they're the closest friend either of them has in the world. Hap is celebrating his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, Brett (who is also Hap and Leonard's boss), when their backyard barbecue is interrupted by a couple of Pentecostal white supremacists. They're not too happy to see Leonard, and no one is happy to see them, but they have a problem and only Hap and Leonard will take the case.

Judith Mulhaney's daughter, Jackrabbit, has been missing for five years. Well, she's been missing from them for five years, but she's been missing from everybody, including the local no-goods who ran with her, for a few months. Despite their misgivings about Judith and her son, Hap and Leonard take the case. It isn't long until they find themselves mixed up in a revivalist cult that believes Jesus will return flanked by an army of lizard-men -- solving a murder to boot.

With Lansdale's trademark humor, whip-smart dialogue, and plenty of ass-kicking adventures to be had, you won't want to miss Hap and Leonard's latest.

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"Talking dirty can be great fun, especially when the trash talkers are Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the cutup private eyes in Joe R. Lansdale's Texas crime capers."―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"Part of what makes this book exceptional is the way Lansdale portrays the long legacy of race and class discrimination as the characters' lived experience. . . . Lansdale is one of a kind, with a deceptively folksy and funny voice that hides real darkness; fans of the eponymous SundanceTV series will be delighted to find the books are even better."―Booklist (starred review)

"Raucous . . . As always, Lansdale provides a wild, fun ride with an astute eye on social issues."―Publishers Weekly

"Fans of the books and Sundance TV series will eagerly follow the men through their latest, politically timely hullabaloo."―Library Journal

"A companionable, enjoyable, and profane series . . . Its pleasures are still welcome."―Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories. He has received the Edgar Award, more than fifteen Bram Stoker Awards, a Critics' Choice Award, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mulholland Books (March 27, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 27, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 351 pages

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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.

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Kathleen

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023

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Arrived in great shape.

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Josh Mauthe

Funny as ever, pitch black noir as ever, and as great as ever - just another great H&L

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

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You know I love Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard books, so it won’t really surprise anyone that Jackrabbit Smile, the 11th entry in the series, brought me as much joy as it did. Within less than a page, Lansdale had me laughing hard enough that I was sending paragraphs to friends to share in my delight, as our boys have a celebration interrupted by a pair of segregationists in need of help. (As you might imagine, Leonard, being black, militant, smart-mouthed, and outspokenly gay, handles this situation particularly well.) Lansdale has always refused to look away from the prevalence of racism and bigotry in poor communities, often letting the series handle different aspects of it all, and Jackrabbit Smile is no exception, as the boys find the disappearance connected to a local figure who’s more than willing to make use of people’s beliefs and prejudices to help himself out.

When you read some of the classics of the noir genre (your Hammetts, your Chandlers), you often find that while the plotting is dense and satisfying, that’s not what brings you to the books; no, it’s the dialogue, the banter, the writing, the mood, and just the experience of it all. The same thing goes for Lansdale’s books; oh, the plot here is great, with some fantastic setpieces (including a superb sequence involving a raid on a compound), but what you’ll remember is the dialogue and the play between characters. You’ll remember the way Leonard constantly finds ways to jab at the racist clients, or the recurring plot of one character’s fame for brewing the worst coffee of all time. You’ll remember Leonard’s excitement over a new hat, or Hap’s inability to walk away from a bad situation, or the adoption of a neglected dog, or Hap’s musings on returning to his hometown after so many years. And more than any of those, you’ll remember the mood of that final chapter, where it feels like a line has been crossed in an unexpected way, even by the standards of these books, and you’ll remember that at their core, these books are both noir tales and tales of friendship – and those two worlds don’t always go perfectly together.

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A. KAPLAN

More Great Prose from a Master

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2018

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Joe Lansdale's Hap & Leonard's adventures tend to involve nasty, petty people doing nasty, petty things. They don't get caught up with master criminals and twisty, complicated plots. So, with this book, the eleventh novel in the series, the enjoyment for me comes mostly from spending time with these familiar characters, and seeing them come up against the sort of casual racism that has become too common in today's society. The subtext of racism has been present in every Hap & Leonard story since the beginning, and I wish that made the earlier volumes feel dated. Unfortunately, those problems still exist, and are even more out in the open today than perhaps when Savage Season--the first book in the series--was published. This volume even features a character who acts like a racist because it's a selling point that will help his business. Ultimately, while I don't think this is the strongest entry in the Hap & Leonard series to date, it's still a worthwhile read. Lansdale gives us his usual great dialogue, and alongside the suspense there are some laugh-out-loud moments. We also get some passages of genuine poetic beauty. Finally, there's a bit of a chilling stinger at the end. I'm curious to see whether or not this is addressed in the next book.

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Jerry Perry

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2022

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Love the Hap and Leonard books . love all the Twist and turns In this book . didn't know who where good are if all where bad.
Joe Lansdale is a great author

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Rick

As good as expected...but

Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018

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The book was everything I expected of a Nap and Leonard novel, but Joe: Please stop, stop, STOP pushing Kasey's music in your books. It instantly jars me out of the story, and I don't appreciate being sold to in a novel that I paid good money to buy. I get that you love your daughter and that the music industry is tough, but in a novel is not the place imho. Clive Cussler keeps putting himself in all of his Dirk Pitt novels as an old guy Dirk keeps running across in his adventures and it has gotten weird and honestly makes me want to stop reading for a while. Love your books, and some are at the top of my list. Just some constructive criticism from a long time fan.

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Can’t Go Wrong!

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2021

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I’ve read all of the books in the series and this one didn’t disappoint! I love the dark humor and bizarre situations that Hap and Leonard find themselves in.
Joe Lansdale is a master at weaving a great tale. I look forward to his new releases. I just wished he wrote faster!

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THORNE

I've read most of the H&L series

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022

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.....this one is my least favorite.

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MinniesMom

Violent but worth the read

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2018

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Lansdale is an absolutely superb writer! I am always eager to read each new addition to Hap and Leonard. Having said that, readers must be aware that these books involve laugh out loud humor, wonderful comradeship, and, in some cases, horrific violence and dark, dark episodes. These guys don't always just shoot bad guys. It gets creative. Jack Rabbit Smile qualifies as such. The number of killings and the manners in which some are carried out may be too much for those not used to Lansdale's style. While this is part of crime fighters Hap and Leonard, JRS is a bit over the top. The previous Rusty Puppy is, for me, a better read---full of suspense, humorous repartee and, sure, violence--- but not keeping me awake at night. I appreciate that Lansdale always addresses racial issues and bigotry---many times with interesting outcomes. If you are new to this award winning author, do give him a try. You'll probably get hooked.

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🐭 Miki101

Attention! This is the most Black vs White...

Reviewed in Italy on April 22, 2020

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... story our heroes have to bring to a - very bloody - end.
Everything was started by a bigot mother plus a brother who cannot even look at someone that's not pure and lily-white, we find ourselves reading a book that partly seems to come out from bushes which should have been burned 150 years ago!
But Jackrabbit was a girl with her own head, and a genius with numbers, too. So she found something better that obey her brother-good-for-nothing and listen to the prayers of her mother. And she even crossed that lily-white line until she got a cute brown little baby girl. And then she vanished into thin air, after her father was butchered obviously by his free will and left to rot in the woods.
Hap and Leonard find mostly very white-oriented people go against the more darker version of mankind. And at the very end most of them - black, brown, beige, white - turn out the same color: pale whitish-green, like all dead bodies do...
A very brutal thriller that leaves a lot of dead bodies behind. Simply because when the race fighting starts, no-one can really stop it. Because... in the darkest hours of the night we are all... black...
5***** plain stars.

Tony Hyland

Fabulous

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2020

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Love these books and once you get into the Hap and Leonard landscape Lansdale has you hook ,line and sinker.

galadrial

Great author

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2018

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This book was bought as a gift for my son who is a Hap and Leonard fan, can't wait for him to read it so I can borrow it. It arrived quickly and was well packed.

Helmut Lichtenegger

New Story of Hap and Leonard

Reviewed in Germany on April 3, 2018

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The two unlikely heroes work as private detectives looking for a woman who left her bigot family. Throw in a few shots, murder and foul language they solve all riddles. But this novel is darker than others - spoiler:Leonard killing one of the bad guys when he is not acting in self defense

Edward D. Creighton

Bit disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2018

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This felt like Lansdale completed this book so it would keep existing fans happy as the earlier books appear on TV. Bit disconcerting that Hap seems to kill people and get over it very quickly. Fantastic series though.

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