Take a Vanilla Ride

Vanilla Ride is the new novel by Joe R. Lansdale, starring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, best friends who are also trouble makers and guys with the best intentions. In this book, they once again stumble into a bad situation, this time with several members of the Dixie Mafia. Hap Collins is from East Texas and Leonard Collins is a gay, black, veteran who's heart is pining for his lost love. An old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive drug dealer and he agrees, and invites Hap along to help him. The drug dealer is a member of the Dixie Mafia, and even though he is on the bottom rung of the organization's ladder, when Hap and Leonard rough him up, the mafia feels obligated to give back some revenge of their own. Hap and Leonard narrowly escape, but end up on the radar of Vanilla Ride, the legendary hit man who's goal is to eliminate them as a threat. Set in Texas, this page-turning, filled with humor novel will carry readers along for the ride throughout all of the pages of the book. The first novel in the Hap and Leonard series is Savage Season; this book gives great background on how Hap and Leonard became friends.