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Lansdale

American  
[lanz-deyl] / ˈlænz deɪl /

noun

  1. a city in SE Pennsylvania.


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Lansdale is a mordantly funny chronicler of Lone Star misdeeds who knows how to keep a plot furiously turning.

From Los Angeles Times

Lansdale, the genre bard of East Texas, brings the deeply flawed and deeply human crime-fighting duo Hap and Leonard back for a 14th time.

From Los Angeles Times

McCormack, 36, of New York, and Mollah, 24, of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, were granted $50,000 bond each after their arraignments Thursday.

From Seattle Times

Lansdale makes a triumphant return to his Hap and Leonard novels with this scorcher.

From Los Angeles Times

Ellsberg went to Vietnam himself a year later, where he gained an insider’s view of the war from two of its legendary figures: Gen. Edward Lansdale, who had inspired the character of Pyle in Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American,” and John Paul Vann, the former Army officer and outspoken critic of U.S. policies in Vietnam, whose exploits were detailed in Neil Sheehan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “A Bright Shining Lie.”

From Los Angeles Times