Hap & Leonard

Created by the award winning American writer Joe R. Lansdale, this series has been running for some time now to much critical and commercial acclaim. With his strong idiosyncratic voice, Lansdale has become a powerful presence within his field producing genre fiction that has helped progress not only his own work, but has also inspired others in the process. Having created a number of series in the past as well, this is a popular line of books that exemplify the greatest strengths of Lansdale as a writer and what audiences have come to love. The series itself features two anti-heroes of sorts in the form of the eponymous Hap and Leonard who always do their best to do the right thing, although it doesn’t always work out the way they want it to. Trying to make ends meet, they’re two men in their late forties who have seen a lot over the years and just want to settle down, but they can’t seem to quite manage it as something always comes up. Set within LaBorde, a fictional town said to be located in East Texas, they have found themselves to be the constant source of misadventures over the course of the novels.