This brings me to the first book in the series, Savage Season. Is my book antenna out-of-order? How many other great books are slipping by unnoticed? But then I discovered something else…Lansdale wrote the short story that became the weird and wonderful film Bubba Ho Tep, and I love that film. Things were beginning to fall into place…and I knew it was my mission to read all the Hap and Leonard novels in the series. It’s at times like this I wonder what I am doing wrong. So why was discovering Lansdale disturbing? I read a lot of books and yet I hadn’t heard about this author. Anyway, I read and reviewed the second novel in the series Mucho Mojo for Then I read and reviewed Vanilla Ride and even managed to cop an interview with Lansdale at the same time. But then I discovered that he’d written an entire series featuring two characters: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Last year I made a disturbing discovering about author Joe Lansdale…he’s written a lot of wonderful books and I’d never heard of him.įirst I read one of Lansdale’s stand-alone thrillers, Leather Maiden.
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