| See all titles by Joe R. Lansdale. Edgar Award–winning author Joe R. Lansdale brings back the wild team of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine (featured in his classic novels Rumble Tumble, Bad Chili, and Mucho Mojo), for another gritty, gutsy, action-packed adventure. Whoever said that no good deed goes unpunished must have met these two East Texas bad ol' boys on one of their better days. Working security for a chicken-processing plant pretty much guaranteed a quiet life, until Hap heard a faint cry for help from just beyond the fence and charged to the rescue of a girl in the clutches of a brutal, drug-crazed attacker. He didn't expect any reward for his knee-jerk gallantry, but the girl's father (who happened to own the chicken plant) insisted on giving him a big check and offered him and Leonard a month-long vacation to boot. Only Hap and Leonard could turn a windfall like that into a disaster…and still come out on top. On paper, the cut-rate cruise they booked had all the amenities, but in fact, the food was lousy, the entertainment was worse, and travelling the high seas on the Sea Pleasure, a former Argentine navy boat, was anything but pleasant. It was almost a relief when the boat left without them after their first landfall. Then they were jumped by muggers, rescued by a feisty fisherman with a sexy daughter, and got tangled up with mobsters, murder, and mayhem south of the border… |