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    <body><![CDATA[It's been close to a decade since Joe Lansdale gave us another Hap and Leonard tale.  Was it worth the wait?  HELL YES!  I gave it five stars, didn't I?<br/><br/>Hap and Leonard get talked into doing a favor for their friend Marvin.  Marvin's granddaughter has been hanging with drug dealers and Ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41941821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mighty fine return to form (at least to me) after the somewhat disappointing Rumble Tumble and Captains Outrageous, has Hap and Leonard finding themselves going up against the Dixie Mafia and a mysterious killer who goes by the handle of Vanilla Ride. Too many secondary characters kind of soured me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61618424">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(to be published later in 2009). The return of Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, and arguably Lansdale's best, most controlled novel.  The theme is the core of my father's philosophy: &quot;No good deed shall go unpunished.&quot;  Hap and Leonard free a girl from her abusive, drug dealing boyfriend.  At...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42665757">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[AS much as I love this series, I don't consider this one of the better ones and found it particularly dissapointing after an eight-year wait. I am only eight chapters ionto it, so perhaps it improves. The previous book, Captains Outrageous, definitely started off stronger.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this off the new shelf, unaware that it was number seven in a series. I was totally sold after the scene in the trailer, one of the greatest ass-kicking scenes I have ever read. Needless to say, I have begun to work my way through the earlier installments.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Joe R. Lansdale and I'm a huge fan of his Hap &amp; Leonard series.  I haven't read all of them . . . yet.  This is a great return to the series for Lansdale with its poetic vulgar language and violence.  A blast!  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the book, but it wasn't anything amazing. This Hap and Leonard entry just sort of started and went. Still not quite as good as Mojo, but it was still a fun read. Gets ya through the day, an easy wave to ride. ]]></body>
    
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