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The Two-Bear Mambo

Ex-convict Hap Collins and his buddy, Leonard Pine--the Texan team from the critically acclaimed "Mucho Mojo"--tangle with redneck racists and a voodoo graveyard while trying to solve a grim mystery.

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Buddies Leonard Pine and Hap Collins venture into Klan-infested Grovestown, Texas to look for Leonard's lawyer who has disappeared while in pursuit of the story behind the jailhouse death of the son of a legendary bluesman. In Grovestown Leonard and Hap encounter a redneck chief of police, a sadistic Christmas tree grower, and townsfolk itching for a good lynching.

Praise

Literary Review
"Perilous hunt through redneck East Texas by odd couple--black/white, gay/straight--for gorgeous black lawyer gone missing while investigating the jailhouse death (most likely murder) of legendary blues singer's money-grabbing son who may have been sitting on a pile of daddy's unpublished songs. Obstacles en route include black-hating township which ignores Civil Rights legislation, murderous cops and the worst floods in living memory. Tough, funny, violent, with more to say about justice, sexuality and male bonding than many more prestigious novels which flaunt their sensitivity on their sleeves. Uncommonly fluent narrative which spells out a bloody plot as fully as needs be, but which rates action above elucidation." - Philip Oakes April 1996

Author Bio

Joe R. Lansdale

Dividing his fictional output between westerns, mysteries, and exceptionally graphic horror (and often a combination of some or all of them), Joe R. Lansdale is devotee of what he calls Mojo storytelling--which seems to mean the ability to translate the subversion of expectations and being born in Texas into a fictional format. His first novel, ACT OF LOVE (1981), was a thriller, but its graphic intensity immediately set it apart from conventional thrillers. His next novels--THE NIGHTRUNNERS (1983), another thriller, TEXAS NIGHT RIDERS (1983), a western, and DEAD IN THE WEST (1986), a horror/western hybrid--were interspersed with numerous short stories. THE DRIVE-IN (1988) was a gruesome homage to horror, science fiction, and the bygone American pastime of the drive-in theater. In 1990, Lansdale wrote a mystery, SAVAGE SEASON, which was the first of a series. He has written a Tarzan tale "with" the late Edgar Rice Burroughs, novels in the Batman series, and even helped develop a graphic novel character, Jonah Hex. Lansdale's work has won numerous awards and he has been twice inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame (so don't mess with him!).