Vanilla Ride

Vanilla Ride
Knopf edition cover
Author	Joe R. Lansdale
Cover artist	Jackie Alpers
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Hap and Leonard
Genre	Crime/suspense
Publisher	Knopf, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publication date	2009
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Trade paperback)
Pages	243
ISBN	978-0-307-27097-9
Preceded by	Captains Outrageous (2001)
Followed by	Devil Red (2011)

Vanilla Ride is a crime fiction novel written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It is the eighth book in the Hap and Leonard series. Published in 2009, it is the first in the book in the series since Captains Outrageous in 2001.

Plot summary

When an old friend asks Leonard Pine to rescue his daughter from a drug dealer, Leonard accepts and of course brings his sidekick and best friend Hap Collins along for backup. With much violence and gunplay they rescue the daughter and end up taking down the drug dealer in the process. The problem is the dealer is a low level member of the Texas crime syndicate The Dixie Mafia. The Dixie Mafia figures some payback is in order and enlist the deadly assassin Vanilla Ride to carry out the hit.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Editions

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard cover

This book was originally published by Alfred A. Knopf publications in 2009 as a hardcover and by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard publications as a trade paperback in 2011.^[4]

References

↑ John Weisman. "BOOKS: 'Vanilla Ride'". Washington Times. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
↑ "Book Review: Vanilla Ride by Joe R. Lansdale". Blog Critics. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
↑ "Vanilla Ride: A Hap and Leonard Novel". Book Reporter. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/book/97836/vanilla-ride-by-joe-r-lansdale

External links

Works by Joe R. Lansdale

Hap and Leonard series	Savage Season (1990) Mucho Mojo (1994) The Two-Bear Mambo (1995) Bad Chili (1997) Rumble Tumble (1998) Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard (1999) Captains Outrageous (2001) Vanilla Ride (2009) Devil Red (2011) Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella (2011) Dead Aim (2013)

Novels	Act of Love (1981) Texas Night Riders (1983) Dead in the West (1986) The Magic Wagon (1986) The Nightrunners (1987) Cold in July (1989) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995) The Boar (1998) Freezer Burn (1999) Waltz of Shadows (1999) The Big Blow (2000) Blood Dance (2000) The Bottoms (2000) A Fine Dark Line (2002) Sunset and Sawdust (2004) Lost Echoes (2007) Leather Maiden (2008) All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011) Edge of Dark Water (2012) In Waders from Mars (2012) The Thicket (2013) Paradise Sky (2015) Fender Lizards (2015) Hell's Bounty (2016)

Novellas	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989) Bubba Ho-Tep (1994) Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999) Under the Warrior Star (2010) Christmas with the Dead (2010) A Bone Dead Sadness (2012) The Ape Man's Brother (2013) Hot in December (2013) Prisoner 489 (2014) Black Hat Jack (2014)

Short story collections	By Bizarre Hands (1989) Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (1991) Bestsellers Guaranteed (1993) Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader (1994) Writer of the Purple Rage (1994) The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1996) Private Eye Action, as You Like It (1998) The Long Ones (1999) Triple Feature (1999) High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale (2000) For a Few Stories More (2002) A Little Green Book of Monster Stories (2003) Bumper Crop (2004) Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories (2004) The King and Other Stories (2005) The God of the Razor (2007) The Shadows, Kith and Kin (2007) Sanctified and Chicken Fried (2009) Unchained and Unhinged (2009) The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010) Deadman's Road (2010) By Bizarre Hands Rides Again (2010) Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (2012) Bleeding Shadows (2013) A Pair of Aces (2014) The Tall Grass and Other Stories (2015)

Graphic novels	Crawling Sky (2013) Jonah Hex: Shadows West (2014)

Anthologies edited	Retro-Pulp Tales (2006) Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009)

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