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Rumble Tumble (Hap and Leonard, 5) Audio CD – Unabridged, November 3, 2009

by Joe R. Lansdale (Author), Phil Gigante (Reader)

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Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are in for an action-packed adventure when they cross paths with a towering Pentecostal preacher, a midget with a giant attitude, and a gang of bikers turned soldiers of fortune.

Even though a midlife crisis just hit Hap Collins like a runaway pickup truck, he's still got his job, he knows his best friend, Leonard Pine, will always be there for him, and of course he's got his main squeeze, Brett Sawyer. Things hit a new low, however, when Brett's daughter, Tillie, who has been walking on the wrong side of the law suddenly stands in need of a rescue. It's won't be easy―it never is―but nothing is going to stop Hap and Leonard as they hit the road destined for Hootie Hoot, Oklahoma to shake things up. And with Hap and Leonard at the wheel this promises to be a wild ride.

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Joe R. Lansdale has written more than a dozen novels in the suspense, horror, and Western genres. He has also edited several anthologies. He has received the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards, and an Edgar Award. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, with his family.

Phil Gigante has narrated over 130 audiobooks, including Audie Award winner The Dark Highlander. An actor, director, and producer with over 20 years experience in theatre, film, television, and radio, he is currently the artistic director of Gigantic Productions and Little Giant Children’s Theatre. He makes his home in the Midwest.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (November 3, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 142338444X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1423384441
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 5.5 x 0.25 inches

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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty 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 eighteen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies.

Lansdale 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.

A major motion picture based on Lansdale's crime thriller Cold in July was released in May 2014, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Sam Shepard (Black Hawk Down), and Don Johnson (Miami Vice). His novella Bubba Hotep 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." He is currently co-producing a TV series, "Hap and Leonard" for the Sundance Channel and films including The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero.

Lansdale 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.

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George Kerdolff

good job

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2023

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Rhouse

Hap and Leonard to the rescue

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013

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I think I've developed an addiction to Joe Lansdale. Since discovering his young adult novel "All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky", I've sought out as many of his books as I can find.
Then I started the Hap and Leonard series and became hopelessly hooked. As I've said in my reviews for the first four H&L novels, they're not for everyone, but if you like ONE, you'll like them all. Hap and Leonard have become two of my favorite characters in modern literature for a variety of reasons. They're always trying to do the right thing, but somehow they always go about it in a less-than-well-thought-out fashion. They're definitely rough and tumble good guys, but because Lansdale has written them so well, they're multifaceted and have more depth than your average main characters in the 'pulp' genre. These guys are willing to fight at the drop of a hat but they are also funny, sincere and clever as hell.

Most of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard books revolve around a mystery, Rumble Tumble doesn't. In this outing, our heroes are on a mission to rescue a friend's daughter from her life as a hooker trapped by a ruthless gangster. Their adventure takes them from Texas to Mexico with some of Lansdale's best supporting characters including an offensive red-haired midget/pimp, assorted thugs and a killer-turned-preacher-turned-prairie dog collector.
Rumble Tumble's plot is, of course, far-fetched (think about any action movie you've ever seen) but with characters like Hap and Leonard, I don't care.
Dark humor and adult language & situations are found throughout Rumble Tumble, it is not a book for the overly-sensitive. But for a lot of action led by two very strong, driven and surprisingly funny men, this book is highly recommended.

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Tim

Humor, intrigue, social commentary

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2022

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Master writer. I actually laugh out loud while reading Mr. Lansdale. The guy can cut a phrase. Having heroes who are black and white, straight and gay, friendship...our American culture idealized--the spirit of equality, compassion, trying to understand.
I cringe at the graphic violence...I skip over it because I love this author's writing.

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Ron Fritze

Lansdale does not disappoint.

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021

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Reading my way through the Hap and Leonard novels is a great experience Great dialogue, wild but plausible premises.

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Joe Da Rold

Road trip to rescue Brett's daughter from a Mexican whorehouse.

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2020

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Hap’s lover Brett is approached by two men, one of whom is Red, a midget. She learns that her daughter Tillie, a prostitute, is being punished for wanting to leave her pimp by being forced to work in a drug-saturated Mexican whorehouse and undergoing abuse. Hap and Leonard take a road trip with Red to rescue Tillie. Although the road trip drags, along the way we encounter two charming scenes: Bob the armadillo that adopts Leonard and the alien abduction of the prairie dogs. The rescue shoot-out is typical Lansdale, although not as exciting as most.

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Josh Mauthe

A little weaker than the rest of the series, but still a great read

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2014

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In some ways, I guess Rumble Tumble is the weakest of the Hap and Leonard books I've read so far, but that makes it sound far worse than it is; the reality is, I still had an absolute blast reading it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and would recommend it highly; it just doesn't quite match up to the standards set by the earlier books in the set. As you might expect from a Hap and Leonard book, Rumble Tumble finds our heroes getting involved in a criminal situation that might be above their heads - in this case, it happens to be retrieving the daughter of Hap's girlfriend from the biker gang that she's recently been sold to. How that path ends intersecting with a dwarf pimp, a once-violent man of God, a violent crime lord, and too many other colorful characters to count...well, I'll let you discover that for yourself. That being said, it's worth noting that the plot in Rumble Tumble is a little disappointingly straightforward, especially by the standards of the series; there's not much here that's going to shock you, and things go more or less as you'd expect, if not better. Even so, that doesn't do anything to hurt the book's strengths: the great dialogue, the fantastic banter, the hard-boiled redneck noir prose, the fantastic characters, the intense action - in other words, all of the usual things that Lansdale knocks out of the park effortlessly. Rumble Tumble may not be terribly surprising, but its prose, character work, and willingness to explore the shades of gray that color in its characters' morality more than make up for any shortcomings along the way. Is it as good as the best of the series? Well, no...but is it better than most of what you'll read in any given day? Oh, most definitely, yes.

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cingram01

Breaks the formula

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2010

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The Hap and Leonard series is a crowd pleaser, that much is certain, but with this book Lansdale attempts to break what was becoming a formula. There is little mystery to this one, and a good deal of action and humor throughout. If you like the characters already you should have no trouble buying into this adventure however this isn't the type of adventure for a newcomer by any means. It is violent, wild, funny, vulgar in the way that Joe Lansdale always is, and it might be predictable, but if you've enjoyed Hap and Leonard in other stories you won't mind in the least.

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THORNE

Love the Hap & Leonard series

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2019

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Just started this one, but already hooked. I started with the TV series and now going through the books.

Just last week was able to meet the author! Really cool guy.

Loyal Hap & Leonard fan here.

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Helmut Lichtenegger

Hap and Leonard take on another adventure

Reviewed in Germany on June 25, 2023

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Hap bangs his redhead Brett and still stays with Leonard but he should move out. Then Bretts daughter Tilly who works as an prostitute wants out of that business. Mix in an dwarf, gangsters, a biker gang the adventure is on and the rescue turns out to be more difficult than thought - and more bloody and deadlier as well

Tony Hyland

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019

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Great entertainment:Hap and Leonard one of the great literary double acts...For all the gore and violence there is a real humanity here in Lansdales work....one of the great underrated American writers...

Mark T

hap and leonard....all you need to know.

Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2013

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Joe Lansdale is possibly the greatest living writer among us. His Hap and Leonard novels are amazing. If you haven't read this series, start at the beginning and relish every word as I did. Then check out his other stuff. He is brilliant.

Polly701

Gritty laughs and a big can of whup-ass

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 7, 2021

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Joe R Lansdale is well-named The Bard of Texas. He can turn a phrase like nobody else. Every now and again I have to stop and reread something that's so elegantly written or so hilarious that I need time to savour it again. EG: "...he hit me with a glancing right that jolted me so hard that the coins in my pocket changed denomination."

Hap and Leonard (aka The Disaster Twins) walk into one life-threatening situation after another, always with the very best intentions and usually to help a friend. They are perennial underdogs, mostly broke with dead-end jobs and often (unintentionally) on the wrong side of the law. Hap is a white, bleeding heart liberal who went to jail rather than go to Vietnam and Leonard is a black, gay, Republican Vietnam-vet. It shouldn't work but it does. It is their friendship, the fact that they would do anything for each other, and their determination to always try to do the right thing that keeps them lovable and keeps the books optimistic.

This is the 5th book in Lansdale's very popular series and follows our hapless (no pun intended) heroes on a mission to rescue the daughter of Hap's girlfriend from a Mexican brothel owned by a highly dangerous biker gang. Lansdale writes the action scenes with a great deal of pace and excitement and the jokes come fast and furious. It's easy to see why the books were made into a tv series (which is available to buy through Prime and is well worth watching).

grandad

product as described good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2018

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