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- Title
- Mucho Mojo
- Author
- Lansdale, Joe R.
- Publisher
- Mysterious Pr
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0892964901
- ISBN 13
- 9780892964901
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 20 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x1x9
- Series
- Book 2 of 15: Hap and Leonard Series
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- first editions
Under the blister of a Texas sun, you distract your mind or watch it die. For Hap Collins, slaving in the rose fields of July, the diversion is fantasies of iced tea and willing women. For Leonard Pine's Uncle Chester, the mental deterioration is too fatally advanced. Dying in the slums of LaBorde, he no longer despises with the same passion his gay nephew Leonard. He ignores the crack house next door. And he forgets about what he'd buried under the floorboards of his house.
He does remember to erect a forbidding "battle tree": a ragged post festooned with glass, designed to ward off black magic.
When Leonard and his old friend Hap clean out Uncle Chester's house, they dig up a small skeleton, wrapped in pornographic magazines - along with a grotesque link between an unsolved series of child murders and Leonard's late relative and guardian. Thinking white, Hap wants to call the police. But Leonard, intimate with the unwritten codes in his black part of town, persuades his partner to help clear Chester's name, sans outside reinforcement. Together, they unearth the deepest, ugliest truth of all.
Suspense sublimely laced with Texas Gothic, Mucho Mojo deftly blends race and romance, sex and death, the too good to be true and the too dark to imagine.
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Reviews
The publicist raved about this dark suspense novel, which concerns a gay couple who unearth a tiny skeleton that may be linked to a series of child murders.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Hap Collins is an East Texas field worker. His buddy, Leonard Pine, is gay, black, and tough as hell. Leonard's uncle dies and leaves a house and money. When Leonard and Hap begin to clean the place out, they discover an old trunk containing a child's skeleton and some porno mags. Leonard persuades Hap to help him clear his uncle's name before they tell the authorities. Their haphazard on-again, off-again investigation--interrupted by a series of confrontations with the crack-house gang next door--reveals that Leonard's uncle and a friend of his, also murdered, were gathering evidence intended to expose a serial killer. It's one way to while away one's golden years. Hap and Leonard--East Texas' dusty version of Spenser and Hawk--wisecrack their way to a resolution, clean out the crack house in a satisfying conflagration, and exorcise a couple of personal demons along the way. Lansdale has written hundreds of short stories and numerous novels; all that went before has crystallized into this extraordinarily memorable book. The friendship and smart-ass patter between Hap and Leonard is so real it's palpable; the plot is compelling; and one can practically hear the wind and taste the dust of an East Texas summer. Damn, this is good. Wes Lukowsky
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