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Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard, 9) Paperback – February 14, 2017

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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. What began as a missing-person case becomes one of blackmail and murder.

Filled with Lansdale's trademark whip-smart dialogue, relentless pacing, and unorthodox characters, Honky Tonk Samurai is a rambunctious thrill ride by one hell of a writer.

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"Listening to a Joe R. Lansdale's East Texas detective yarn in the Hap Collins-and-Leonard Pine series is like hanging out with a skilled barroom raconteur. Lansdale's language dances with colorful and regular profanity as he performs a shotgun wedding between wild and ridiculous, tying it together with enough cartoonish violence and abundant wit to send you reaching for your wallet to buy the next round. . . . Altogether it's wild, funny, utterly improbable and thoroughly satisfying entertainment."―Jenni Laidman, Chicago Tribune

"Audacious . . . Honky Tonk Samurai lives up to the rich legacy of the titles that preceded it in Lansdale's Hap and Leonard series. . . . It takes a masterful writer to pull off what Lansdale accomplishes in these books, combining humor, nihilism and absurdism along with sublime plotting and character development. It reads as if it's done effortlessly, and that's no small trick."―W.K. Stratton, Dallas Morning News

"Terrific . . . This shambolic, action-packed novel will ensnare new readers and satisfy devoted fans alike. With the Sundance Channel's highly anticipated Hap and Leonard cable series coming in early 2016, this really could be Lansdale's year."―Publishers Weekly (starred boxed review)

"This is damn fine reading from Lansdale . . . Don't miss it."―Booklist (starred)

"Dubious delights... await you in Honky Tonk Samurai, the latest outing for Joe R. Lansdale's perpetual bad boys, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.... a ton of fun."―New York Times

"The camaraderie and down-home scatology carry the day. Let's hope there's more of that good feeling to come in this terrific series."―Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"Another jawdropper from the seemingly indefatigable favorite son of Nacogdoches, Texas . . . Hilarious, crude and violent, peppered through and through with unforgettable characters that leap off the page, dance around the room, and run off down the road. It doesn't get any better than this. . . . Give this man a National Medal of the Arts for his entire body of work."―Joe Hartlaub, BookReporter

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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of nearly four dozen novels, including Rusty Puppy, the Edgar-award winning The Bottoms, Sunset and Sawdust, and Leather Maiden. He has received nine Bram Stoker Awards, the American Mystery Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature. He lives with his family in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mulholland Books; Reprint edition (February 14, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 031632941X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316329415
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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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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George Richard

Always good action, deep freindship

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2023

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I really like the dialogue and the cadence Lansdale has built between his characters. I actually laugh and groan aloud while reading them. The action scenes are well done and understandable while still having the urgency and confusion necessary to make them exciting.
I've read 3 or 4 of the Hap\Leonard series and look forward to more.

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Josh Mauthe

Nine books in, and the Texas noir series just keeps getting darker, funnier, and just plain better

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2019

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I truly think Joe Lansdale is one of the most gifted writers working today, but it's frustrating, because almost every one of the magnificently quotable lines I want to use to back up that claim is also wildly, gleefully profane, delivered in Lansdale's perfect Texas drawl and colored with language that just pops its way off the page. Such is definitely the case with Honky Tonk Samurai, the ninth full-length novel in Lansdale's Hap and Leonard series, which had me frequently laughing out loud in public at lines I could never say out loud (particularly if I was reading it at work).

But as funny as Lansdale's dialogue is, and as lived-in as his characters are (there may not be two other characters I enjoy just hanging out more than Hap Collins and Leonard Pine), what's a treat about reading this series is how much Lansdale is able to mix verbal skills with noir storytelling with rich characterization, creating something that feels like your buddy leaning over a beer telling you a story, but instead giving you something wildly inventive, complex plotting, rich moral dilemmas, vibrant characters, and a keenly observed take on the world. And Honky Tonk Samurai is no exception, kicking off with Leonard assaulting a man who's beating his dog and somehow going from there to a missing girl, and then to a car dealership which might be a front for something far more insidious, and then to somewhere far, far darker than you'd expect. (Unless you've read Lansdale. In which case, you know the places his books can take you whether you're ready or not.)

Even after eight previous novels and a slew of shorter pieces, Lansdale is still letting his characters evolve, as Hap and Leonard keep aging, the cast of characters in their world keeps getting deeper (especially here, with Lansdale tossing a real grenade into the characters' private lives), and their moral debts piling up. It's to his credit that he can create a villain as loathsome as the one he does here and still leave the reader uneasy as to what the meaning of justice is, and whether death ever should be the right punishment for someone, no matter how twisted their souls. (And to that point: are they responsible for their evil, or are they created by those that raised them? And does that change the moral calculus?)

Reading Lansdale's Texas noir is always a treat, and Honky Tonk Samurai is right up there with the best of them, telling an over-the-top tale in a grounded, witty, profane world where you can feel the heat in the air and hear the accents loud and clear. That it somehow manages to be a buddy comedy, a crime story, a noir tale of inner darkness, a complicated mystery, and still have time at its core for a genuinely sweet relationship - that's not nothing, and it's the kind of thing that makes coming back to these books such a joy, time after time.

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Christopher O'Riley

Joe Lansdale rulez

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2018

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It's been awhile since I've caught up with the work of Joe R. Lansdale, Nacogdoches, TX resident and martial arts expert. I first got to know his East Texas Noir through another great Texan native writer, Stephen Graham Jones. I believe my first from Joe was The Bottoms, sort of a mashup (and I don't mean to cast aspersions on its innate originality, just to describe it for those unfamiliar with his work) of To Kill a Mockingbird and Silence of the Lambs. I was hooked. A lot of his earlier work (The DriveIn) is supernaturally infused, but for me, out of the 4 dozen novels he's written over the years, the series that's most enjoyable is his Hap and Leonard (pictured, from the shortlived TV series) novels. They are unlikely comrades, Hap having served a term in prison for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War, Leonard a Log Cabin Republican veteran of that war. But the chemistry of brotherhood between these occasional and hapless private detectives in the fictional burg of LaBorde, TX, their idiosyncracies and their sense of humor are truly laugh your ass off funny. This goes a long way in leavening the rampant mayhem and corruption that finds them even in their backwoods town.
Honkytonk Samurai starts out with Hap and Leonard taking on a missing persons case, a trail gone dry, and spins off into major Dixie Mafia incursions, and a hitman (or men)who takes grisly souvenirs.
Thrilled to be catching up with this incredibly entertaining and insightful body of work.

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A violent good time with a sting in its tail

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2016

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Reading a new Hap and Leonard book these days feels like slipping into a comfortable pair of slippers. These Texan ne'er-do-wells have been fixing problems with good humour and punching for nine books, a bunch of novellas and countless short stories. There's a lot to love but it's very familiar.

And so, for the first half of the novel, it's pretty much business as usual. Lengthy but hilarious chats between Hap and Leonard, scenes of stylish violence dealt out to those who probably had it coming and the kooky cast of support characters we've come to know and love. Like I said, comfy slippers. Feels good if a little worn.

Then a little past the halfway mark something happens. Joe reminds us he has teeth and the plot twists and turns into pitch black territory that's reminiscent of Lansdale's meaner earlier works like The Nightrunners. I won't go into spoiler territory but I read the last third of the book in one sweaty-palmed, wide eyed session that left me audibly gasping.

Literally. I gasped. Out loud. Scared the cat and everything.

Lansdale fans and Hap and Leonard readers would do well to pick up the latest entry. To strain the metaphor past breaking point, this pair of slippers starts off warm and friendly but as you slide your foot in, you'll soon find some mad Texan bastard left razor blades in the toe!

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May contain nuts!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 11, 2016

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After Leonard beats up a man for abusing a dog, the two friends are forced into finding the missing grand-daughter of a cantankerous old biddy who videoed the whole thing on her mobile phone from behind her twitching curtains next door, and is threatening them with the police if they don't co-operate..
What at first appears like a standard missing persons case though, soon puts our heroes very much out of their depth and in the firing line once again, when they uncover a lucrative blackmail scheme involving a lot of rich people, a dangerous biker gang known as The Apocalypse on Wheels, The FBI, an organised crime syndicate from Houston, a family of inbred hit-men and a whole load of jars filled with nuts..!

Lansdale's eagerly anticipated (at least by me!), latest Hap and Leonard novel is a cracker!!
I pre-ordered this one and took the time off work, ready to make sure I could read this when it came out.. I didn't blast through it all in one sitting though, instead reading this 340 page novel over a few days. Appreciating it like you might a whole bag of vanilla cookies, if they were locked in a drawer out of your reach of course..

Anyway, the story starts out relatively slow by H&L's standards but picks up pace as it rolls along, up until it's jaw dropping finale.
Along the way it is filled with much of the usual vulgar banter, lashings of violence and repugnant humorous dialogue, and colourful creations that have become idiosyncratic to Lansdale's style of 'mojo' storytelling. Throwing in some previous Hap & Leonard characters like Jim Bob Luke (okay he wasn't Hap & Leonard's originally but they got the rights to him now, right?) and Vanilla Ride, while including others from the Lansdale universe, like Cason Statler and 'Copper Cat' Booger! Who all team up in the end in order to try and take down the nest of bad guys. Well, after all, we've all been waiting to see what would happen when Leonard and Booger inevitably met up haven't we?
With even Lansdale's musician daughter, Kasey, getting a couple of mentions.
I wont say any more for fear of spoiling it for you. Even if, just out of sheer badness, I could..!!

I first started reading this series about 20yrs ago now and have been a fan of Joe's work ever since, and although this isn't the best in the Hap & Leonard cannon (I personally like Rumble Tumble or Mucho Mojo best.. possibly?), it's certainly up there with the better ones.. I suppose the only major downsides being that there's little hand-to-hand combat in this one, and I always like that, it's a nice touch.. Oh and also that Lansdale probably didn't utilize the baddies, during the big showdown at the end, to their greatest potential, which was a bit of a let down.

One has to wonder if with the upcoming Hap & Leonard TV series, due to start any time now, whether this will create an army of new fans? And many more books, I for one hope so, because I thoroughly enjoyed this!

4.75/5.

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angus

Good, but not the best in the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2019

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If you're reading the Hap and Leonard series in order, you'll want to read this when you reach book 9, but it's not the best and you shouldn't - not to insert any spoilers - be overly alarmed by the ending. Just keep reading.
The reason I'm saying it's not the best is that until this point I always felt that the dialogue was everything you come to expect from Lansdale, but above every other positive, it was always natural-sounding and flowed along realistically - a bunch of mates (buddies ?) all ripping it out of one another - but this one not so much. I felt that a lot of the dialogue came across as somewhat stilted and a bit forced. The exchanges go on for quite a bit longer than they need to, taking it beyond funny and into 'isn't this clever ?' Not really.

Gabbi

As good as ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 14, 2019

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There has never been a bad hap and Leonard story .this one is as good as they get with all the gang back together to take on the creepiest killing machine ever. Oh and the humour is as black as night. I dread coming to the end of this series . Why the t.v. show got canned is a mystery . There was so much potential there. Hope it gets picked up again. I'd love to see how they portray Vanilla ride.
Villanelle is great but Vanilla is greater.
Please continue this magnificent series Mr Lansdale. Only you and the late Robert b Parker can write buddy stuff that does it for me.

Terry

Another great Hap & Leonard book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 10, 2022

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I have read many of Joe R Lansdale and never been disappointed. I love his style of writing, his descriptive text is unique

DodgilyArtful

Meatier than the last couple of Hap and Leonard books ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 5, 2018

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Meatier than the last couple of Hap and Leonard books. There's a slight hint of the familiar as our heroes put together an invincible crew of deadly assassins to take out a marginally less invincible crew of deadly assassins. It's all dreadful hokum, but somewhere in the middle of the blood, guts and vanilla cookies there is enough heart to make me smile, make me cry and make me wish every book was as entertaining as this.

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