Description

Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of Americas most essential crime writers, heads back to the dangerous woods of East Texas. In his first crime career-retrospective, including previously uncollected work, Lansdale shows exactly why critics continue to compare him to Elmore Leonard, Donald Westlake, Flannery OConnor, and William Faulkner.

Pulpy, blackly humorous, compulsively readable, and somehow both wildly surreal and down-to-earth. Lansdale is a national fucking treasure.
Christa Faust, author of Money Shot

In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister travel to Oklahoma to recover the dead body of their uncle. A lonely man engages in dubious acts while pining for his rubber duckie.

In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get uglyand fast.

Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.14w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781616963965
Language: English