In his first crime career-retrospective, the Edgar Award winner and best-selling author presents nineteen unforgettable stories in which he brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, murder and mayhem. Original.
Edgar Award winner and bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale (the Hap and Leonard series), one of America's 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 O’Connor, 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 ugly—and fast.
This retrospective collection from bestselling, Edgar award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (The Bottoms, Hap and Leonard showcases his sharp wit and insight in the best of his gritty crime fictionLansdale appeals to fans of humorous, insightful, hard-boiled fiction including crime, mysteries, and thrillers by authors such as Elmore Leonard and films such as Pulp FictionNational marketing plan to include promotion targeting mystery, crime, thriller, and Texas media and publications; regional Texas, national, and international author appearances; consumer and trade advertising; interviews, blog tour, and podcasts; and author and publisher social media campaign; ARC giveaways on Goodreads, NetGalley, and Edelweiss
