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Edgar Award-winner and fan favorite Joe R. Lansdale is back with Hap and Leonard's latest caper: investigating the disappearance of a revivalist cult leader's daughter. Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair-Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough-as-nails black gay Vietnam...

Jack Wiggle, ein unbedeutender Bewohner einer kleinen englischen Stadt, am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, erwacht eines Morgens mit einer Idee. Die Vision, die ihn von nun an leitet, erweckt seine Kreativität und ermutigt ihn, sich allen Gepflogenheiten und Ressentiments gegenüber zu behaupten. Ob sein bester blinder Freund Karl, der Earl von Clayton, oder der Bürgermeister, so manche Dame der kleinen bis dato unbedeutenden Stadt Burghingen, oder die bezaubernde Lehrerin Rose, alle werden hineingezogen in den Sog der Idee des Jack Wiggle.

For everyone who's a part of a tribe, their journey through life is more or less the same. For the good or bad, it changes you. After all, iron sharpens iron, and time apart in a leper colony can challenge your worldview. But on the bright side, they're doing fine just rolling around from place to place. Never in a spot for too long, all the while wearing masks and performing a show for the simple-minded audience. Once they paid the ticket price to come and see the rejects, they can go on their merry way with their judgements. Oh, what fun! Care to sit a while and listen?