Savage Season is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series Hap and Leonard
A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn't be more different. Hap is an east Texas white-boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a gay, black Vietnam vet. Together, they steer up more commotion than a fire storm. But that's just the way they like it. So when an ex-flame of Hap's returns promising a huge score. Hap lets Leonard in on the scam, and that's when things get interesting. Chockfull of action and laughs, Savage Season is the masterpiece of dark suspense that introduced Hap and Leonard to the thriller scene. It hasn't been the same since.
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This is the first book in the series "Hap and Leonard" by Joe R. Lansdale. The book is darkly comic and briskly written. The protagonists are extremely well defined, Hap is a former convict who was imprisoned for taking a stand against the Vietnam War and Leonard is a, gay, Vietnam veteran who is Hap's best friend. The two work as seasonal farmhands and winter has come. They get roped into a criminal deal with Hap's ex-wife (who he still is attracted to) and dark hilarity ensues. The finale of is bloody and memorable. Recommended.
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