Savage Season is the basis for the first season of the Sundance TV series Hap and LeonardA 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 … 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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It seems that the number-one cause of trouble in crime novels is the ex-wife, followed by the ex-lover and the flaky best friend. It helps if the ex is a sex bomb and Our Hero hasn’t quite gotten over her. So it goes in Savage Season, the debut of East Texas good-ol’-boys Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
The troublesome ex in this story is Trudy, …
I love loved both Hap and Leonard as characters. I think everyone needs a friend like these two are to each other. Despite how different they are, they will always have each others backs. I loved what Joe does with the banter between the two. Great story teller as well.
Hap and Leonard are great dudes.
Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard make for greatly entertaining leads to the colorful Texas backdrop. It’s remarkable the visuals and emotions Lansdale can evoke with so few words. Doesn’t hurt that the easy-going early charm turns into a tense suspense novel by its end.
Good ol’ boy story with lots of twists.
Love the charactors!
Great friendship even though they are total opposite
Action, comedy, & morals.
Funny dialogue and situations, but with real consequences. I’ll be reading more Hap and Leonard novels!
All of the Hap and Leonard books are interesting and have great action… this one is especially important because it demonstrates that our protagonists can experience fear, and what it takes to overcome adversity. Read this book…read the entire series, you won’t be disappointed.
Any of the Hap and Leonard books are
definitely worth reading . Can’t think
of two more entertaining characters.
Lansdale has an incredible imagination plus his writing style really brings you into the story.
This is Lansdale at his best. The back-and-forth between Leonard and Hap could only happen between life-long friends. If you only read one of Lansdale’s books, you can’t go wrong with this one.
It’s an okay read. Not great writing, bit an unusual cast if characters ,