Like lions

Title:

Like lions

Author:

Panowich, Brian, author.

Personal Author:

Panowich, Brian, author.

ISBN:

9781250206947

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 25 cm

Abstract:

"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job, and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally has to make a choice. When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs territory, leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake, Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. Revenge is a powerful force, and the vacuum left by his brothers' deaths has left them all vulnerable. With his wife and child in danger, and the way of life in Bull Mountain under siege for everyone, Clayton will need to find a way to bury the bloody legacy of his past once and for all."-- Provided by publisher.

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Mountain people -- Fiction.

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Summary

"A book filled with unforgettable characters and a tension that heightens with every chapter." -- The Wall Street Journal

A powerful follow up to multiple award-winning debut Bull Mountain .

Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades from readers and critics alike for his smoldering debut, Bull Mountain . Now with Like Lions , he cements his place as one of the outstanding new voices in crime fiction.

Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family.

As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally has to make a choice.

When a rival organization makes a first foray into Burroughs territory, leaving a trail of bodies and a whiff of fear in its wake, Clayton is pulled back into the life he so desperately wants to leave behind. Revenge is a powerful force, and the vacuum left by his brothers' deaths has left them all vulnerable. With his wife and child in danger, and the way of life in Bull Mountain under siege for everyone, Clayton will need to find a way to bury the bloody legacy of his past once and for all.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

Panowich's follow-up to Bull Mountain (2015) is a story of buried lucre and hidden feelings.For his sophomore effort, Panowich has written a violent, gruesome, sharply focused tale. The drug dealing Leek clan, from Florida, faces off with troubled Sheriff Clayton Burroughs of Bull Mountain, Georgia. The Leek crew wants to move stolen OxyContin from Florida through Georgia to Tennessee and North Carolina. They ask Burroughs to offer safe passage through the mountains where he officiates. But even if Clayton's family has its own history of drug-dealing, he draws the line at going along with the Leeks' scheme. The Leeks, meanwhile, want even more from the Burroughses: Somewhere on Bull Mountain the sheriff's family stashed millions of their ill-gotten dollars. The two plotlines tether the reader even if the action sometimes plays out in too-familiar moments: The sheriff's baby is imperiled in a burning house, after which thugs brutalize his wife. Panowich compensates for the melodramatics with dimensional characters, punchy dialogue, and a palpable sense of place. Clayton Burroughs is a psychologically and physically wounded man struggling to deal with shooting to death his drug-dealing brother. The sheriff's relationship with his wife, Kate, is troubled, an inarticulate conflict his drinking riles. Backing the couple is a slate of characters who display chilling capabilities for good and evil deeds. After confessing to murder and ordering the burning of Clayton's father's barn, a woman gives the sheriff's infant son a blanket she crafted. Panowich salts his tale with evocative detail, like the jars of vienna sausages, the Dinty Moore Potted Meat, and the Zippo-type lighters bearing Confederate flags for sale at Pollard's Corner Gas 'n Go. Off-putting, though, is the author's penchant for using the four-letter vulgarity for excrement, which turns up on page after page. He can do better, as he otherwise shows.Action and reflection are skillfully balanced in a vigorously written, trenchant tale. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.