Captains Outrageous - Hardcover

Lansdale, Joe R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892967285 ISBN 13: 9780892967285

Publisher: Mysterious Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Hap Collins is stuck in a bit of a mid-life rut. Spending his days guarding the local poultry plant, he doesn't look forward to going home to his lady Brett, with whom making love has become like twice-ground hamburger without the fixings. Suddenly, a spontaneous, off-duty act of rescue earns Hap and his best friend Leonard Pine a cruise down the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean. But their holiday is short-lived, thanks to a shipboard eruption of Leonard's proud, hot temper. Stranded with Hap in Mexico, Leonard buys an ugly hat, gets stabbed by a thug cop, and is saved from armed desperadoes by a geriatric fisherman and his gorgeous daughter.
Then things get dangerous.
On frighteningly foreign turf, Hap and Leonard wade through a cast bigger than the U.S. army, including a nudist mobster, his seven-foot enforcer, and a hog-raising private eye. Getting way too close to high-echelon corruption and murder, they will find a parcel of trouble following them everywhere. And along the way Leonard may even buy a new hat.

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Review

"The most consistently original and originally visceral writer the great state of Texas (or any other state for that matter) has seen in a score of flashpoint summers."--Austin Chronicle
"Lansdale gets better with each book."--Rocky Mountain News

"A storyteller in the great American tradition of Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain."--The Boston Globe "Lansdale reaches the reader on a gut level. . . . A terrific writer."--Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine "Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness . . . but amped up to about 100,000 watts."--Houston Chronicle "One of publishing's best kept secrets."--Dallas Morning News "Hap and Leonard function as a sort of Holmes and Watson -- if Holmes and Watson had had more lusty appetites and less refined educations and spent their lives in east Texas. . . . Not only funny, but also slyly offer acute commentary on matters of race, friendship and love in small-town America."--The New York Times "Lansdale has a zest for storytelling and a gimlet eye for detail."--Entertainment Weekly "As funny as all get out."--Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Book Description

Brilliant new Hap and Leonard pageturner from the author of THE BOTTOMS

Edition details

• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0892967285
• ISBN 13: 9780892967285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336