Captains
Outrageous
A
Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Mystery
Joe
R. Lansdale
Mysterious
Press (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-89296-728-5 (0892967285)
ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-728-5 (9780892967285)
Publication Date: September 2001
List Price: $24.95
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Hap Collins is stuck in a bit of a mid-life rut.
Spending his days guarding the local poultry plant, he doesn't look
forward to going home to his lady Brett, with whom making love has
become like twice-ground hamburger without the fixings. Suddenly, a
spontaneous, off-duty act of rescue earns Hap and his best friend
Leonard Pine a cruise down the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean. But
their holiday is short-lived, thanks to a shipboard eruption of
Leonard's proud, hot temper. Stranded with Hap in Mexico, Leonard buys
an ugly hat, gets stabbed by a thug cop, and is saved from armed
desperadoes by a geriatric fisherman and his gorgeous daughter.
Then things get dangerous.
On frighteningly foreign turf, Hap and Leonard wade through a cast
bigger than the U.S. army, including a nudist mobster, his seven-foot
enforcer, and a hog-raising private eye. Getting way too close to
high-echelon corruption and murder, they will find a parcel of trouble
following them everywhere. And along the way Leonard may even buy a new
hat.
Review:
After an absence of several years, best friends Hap Collins and Leonard
Pine return in Captains Outrageous,
the fifth entry in this mystery series by Joe R. Lansdale.
Lansdale is a wonderful story-teller, and the reader often feels as if
they are a part of the story and along for the ride. But the amateur
sleuthing team of Hap and Leonard is definitely an acquired taste. The
mystery, such as it is in Captains Outrageous, is definitely secondary
to the relationship these two men have and the adventures they share
together. The pacing of the story is lightening fast (helped, no doubt,
by the unusually large font chosen by the publisher) and there is
rarely a dull moment. The ancillary characters possess a wonderful
individuality and add a measure of complexity and interest to the story.
Captains
Outrageous is not the best of
this series, but certainly entertaining and worth reading.
Review Copyright © 2001 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Location(s) referenced: Mexico.
