![]() Hap Collins is a good-natured, middle-aged, straight white man who served time in his youth for refusing to fight in Vietnam. ![]() They are all thrillers set around the fictional East Texas town of LaBorde, with an emphasis on raucous humour, inventive swearing, and violent action. Lansdale seems incapable of choosing a genre and sticking to it, but these stories stay as close to the straight and narrow as he is ever likely to do. The Hap and Leonard stories have played a big role in his move to mainstream acceptance, and Savage Season is the first in the series. ![]() He has numerous awards to his name, and the University of Texas collected some of his best fiction in Sanctified and Chicken Fried, giving the academic seal of approval to a writer of some of the most funny, vulgar, and horrific stories written. His crime novel Cold in July was recently filmed with Don Johnson in a lead role. It’s something he still does, but has now achieved considerable mainstream success. ![]() He started out writing short stories for the independent press – mainly horror and thrillers. Joe R Lansdale is a veteran writer of more than 25 years. ![]()
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