Bad Chili

Hap and Leonard #4

by Joe R. Lansdale, Bernard Blanc (Translator)

Soyez blanc, sympa, hétéro, sans vrai boulot ni caisse de retraite et vivez au Texas, royaume du port d’armes! Hap Collins attire les ennuis. Sa nonchalance agace. À peine remis d’une aventure et le voilà mordu en plein champ par un écureuil enragé. Une mort ignoble le guette. L’hôpital va le saigner à blanc et, pour ne rien arranger, Leonard a disparu. Impossible de rester sous perfusion avec son meilleur ami dans la mouise! Homosexuel black cognant comme un bûcheron, ce dernier est accusé de meurtre. La police adore. Hap non. Debout pour que justice se fasse, il ne se contentera pas de contourner la loi, il va la piétiner...

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Humor, Mystery Thriller

329 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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

[Roberto Leonardi]

𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨:
𝑫𝒐𝒑𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒊 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝒖𝒏’𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂. 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐, 𝒎𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆 𝒖𝒏’𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂, 𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒂 𝒖𝒏𝒂, 𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒎𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒂, 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒉é 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒔à 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐 𝒄𝒆 𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒃𝒆 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒂 𝒖𝒏’𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒂.