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Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel
Written by Joe R. Lansdale
Narrated by Phil Gigante
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.
Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend and offers to help clean Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards - a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.
"Lansdale's prose has the mean terseness of James M. Cain...Welds the grungy nihilism of pulp to the delibrate exaggerations of the tall tale." - Newsday
"Like 10-alarm chili, Lansdale is pretty hot stuff." - People
Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo's last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend and offers to help clean Uncle Chester's dilapidated house, they uncover a dark little secret beneath the house's rotting floor boards - a small skeleton buried in a trunk. Hap wants to call the police. Leonard being a black man in east Texas, persuades him this is not a good idea, and together they set out to clear Chester's name on their own. The only things standing in their way is a houseful of felons, a vicious killer, and possibly themselves.
"Lansdale's prose has the mean terseness of James M. Cain...Welds the grungy nihilism of pulp to the delibrate exaggerations of the tall tale." - Newsday
"Like 10-alarm chili, Lansdale is pretty hot stuff." - People
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Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the winner of the British Fantasy Award, the American Horror Award, the Edgar Award, and six Bram Stoker Awards. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.
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Reviews for Mucho Mojo
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mucho Mojo (first published in 1994), is the second Hap Collins and Leonard Pine book by Joe Lansdale. Mucho Mojo, according to one of the characters in this book means “Much bad magic.” The book does not deal with black magic or any kind of magic. However, there is plenty of bad magic in the form of drug dealers and child murderers in this book. Our two East Texas good-ole (and very tough) redneck vigilantes/amateur detectives, Hap and Leonard, get involved when Leonard inherits a broken down house from his deceased Uncle Chester. The house turns out to be next door to some drug dealers, whom Hap and Leonard eventually deal with. They also discover something in Uncle Chester’s house that leads them into conflict with a child murderer and the police. Mucho Mojo is the fourth Hap and Leonard book that I have read, and they are great characters. Although they are rugged, lacking formal education (but well versed by a street education), and extremely tough; they are also morally and ethically strong defenders of weak, feeble, poor, or otherwise vulnerable people who are being exploited, threatened, abused, or terrorized by criminals. Hap and Leonard both feel fear, but they do not allow it deter their actions when they believe they are doing what needs to be done. They also are willing to inflict pain, and even to kill, when they determine it is clearly the right thing to do. Like all the Hap and Leonard books, Mucho Mojo is a well-written, complex, compelling, and very violent story. I enjoyed reading this book very much and I recommend it highly for anyone who is not averse to strong vulgar dialogue and graphic violence.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"Mucho Mojo" would be a good book to bring on vacation. The story moves along nicely and it has an interesting plot.Leonard Pine is surprised to learn that his uncle Chester has left him his home and $100,000. Leonard's feeling was that his uncle didn't approve of him because Leonard is gay.His friend, Hap Collins, is with him when they arrive at Leonard's uncle's home and find that drug dealers from the crack house next door are conducting their business on Leonard's uncle's porch.Leonard asks Hap to move in and help him fix the house. While they are doing this, they find the body of a young child in the basement, along with some coupons and photos of children in sex positions. At first, they think that Leonard's uncle must be a killer and child molester but after looking at the evidence, Leonard remembers that his uncle was a cop wanna be and they realize that he must have been searching for the killer and perhaps leaving a message before the dementia that wasbeginning, took his mind.The author brings up a number of important issues in this book. Leonard is a black man who is gay. Cap is a white man who is straight. We see how these men deal with each other and the respect they have for the other's differences. We also read about the problem of crack houses in the inner city and how this effects the children of the area. We also read of child abduction and pedophilia.The story is entertaining and the characters likable. The author has a talent for having his characters use dialog in a manner that makes it seem as if they are telling you the story while in the room with you.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of the more effective entries in the Hap Collins/Leonard Pine series, but nice to see that Lansdale has branched out to more serious works that still preserve the essence of his incredible imagination.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tough Guy Country Noir: "Mucho Mojo" by Joe R. Lansdale Published 1994.
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