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