Hap & Leonard 2: Bad Chili - Rumble Tumble - Capitani oltraggiosi

by Joe R. Lansdale, Alfredo Colitto (Translator)

Un biker ucciso da un colpo di fucile, un'infermiera con un passato da dimenticare e due bellissime gambe. Un nano cerimonioso e fanciulle non proprio virtuose che vanno messe in salvo da bande di malviventi più arrabbiati di sciami di vespe impazzite. Una giovane messicana che porta sciagure, un capomafia maniaco nudista che ha assoldato un killer grande come una montagna... Hap e Leonard, la coppia di detective più esilarante del Texas, sono amici e hanno in comune uno spiccato senso di giustizia e una capacità senza pari di mettersi nei guai. E anche in questi tre romanzi pieni di comicità, di ininterrotti colpi di scena e di fulgida follia non intendono smentirsi.

744 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2016

About the author

Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.

He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.

Reviews

[Alessandro Giuliani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seconda trilogia che conferma tutti i pregi di Lansdale, con i suoi personaggi fantastici, politicamente scorretti, autoironici e dissacranti
Storie che si leggono d’un fiato, non troppo strutturate, ma comunque divertenti e a tratti irresistibili.
Proseguire con le storie di Hap & Leonard sarà un piacere !

[MaxKender · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seconda raccolta e altre tre avventure di Hap e Leonard. Sempre più roboanti e sempre più da applausi. La capacità dei due di infilarsi nelle situazioni peggiori è impareggiabile. Scrittura sempre graffiante ed estremamente godibile. Pollice in alto.

[Corinna]

"Veil non frequentava molto i circoli umoristici, così rideva per quel tipo di cose che fanno ridere i lupi."