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Like Lions

By: Brian Panowich
Narrated by: Brian Troxell
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Publisher's summary

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

Brian Panowich burst onto the crime fiction scene in 2015, winning awards and accolades 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.

©2019 Brian Panowich (P)2019 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

“Brian Panowich’s glorious return to Bull Mountain is another sprawling, brutal, no-holds-barred novel that held me in a death grip from page one until it kicked me out of the door with an ending I never saw coming.” (C.J. Box, author, Wolf Pack)

"Brian Panowich makes a triumphant return to Bull Mountain, Georgia, in his second novel, Like Lions, as he continues to mix crime fiction with a violent family drama, perfectly melding characters with a sense of place." — Associated Press

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Bull Mountain Part Two

Great Follow Up. Its been a few years since I listened to Bull Mountain, but this brought me right back to those details without retelling that whole story. Wonderfully drawn characters, fully fleshed out and a plot that kept me engaged.
Well narrated.

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Complicated

It was complicated- but good one to follow Bull Mountain - there was one thing I wanted answered though, but I can't say without it being a spoiler alert 😁

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Bull Mountain is great, Like Lions is better...

I grew up in the small town of Harlem, Ga. Many of the places and landmarks Panowich uses are part of my upbringing. Pollard’s Corner, Pair of Jack’s, Pumpkin Center...hell, I fished Boneville pond more times then I can count. But besides my familiarity with the places around Bull Mountain, these novels give us characters that are so “real”, especially if you grew up in small town Georgia. Characters like the Buroghs and the Viners are people I can picture and place amongst my friends and enemies from my childhood.

I highly recommend Like Lions. It is the right mix of violence, grittiness, and suspense that makes it an page turner and a book I couldn’t put down. Much like in Bull Mountain, Panowich paints pictures with his prose. He is a modern day Flannery O’Connor, but injects his own poetic view of the real South.

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Great!

I really hope this a series! Kate is amazing! Fantastic follow up to Bull Mountain.

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Great follow-up to Bull Mountain

At the end of Bull Mountain, you'd think that with such a nice and tidy story like that, there wouldn't be enough meat left on the bone to create a whole new story from the leftovers -but there sure is. This book fills out the history of Bull Mountain and its characters. There is a great twist at the end of this book that really stepped it up a notch. All in all, I would feel confident saying that if you enjoyed Bull Mountain, you will enjoy Like Lions. It really buttons up the story of Clayton and all the Burroughs quite nicely.

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Really Good

Panowich has written one even better then Bull Mountain. Reminded me a lot of Hunter’s Dirty White Boys.

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Excellent

The twist at the end makes the whole read worth it!
I recommend this book.

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Great. book

lover it I really hated for it to end. I hope there will be another with the Burrows family in Atlanta working for the GBA.

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Such a great story

Have never written a review after hundreds of books here. This one drove me to it.

Cannot praise the storytelling here enough. The listen is worth the last hour, if you do not appreciate the character development up until that point (and from the previous, Bull Mountain). So well thought out and entertaining I felt compelled to.

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Justified + Deliverance = Like Lions

One cannot read this without first reading Bull Mountain. When you've read Bull Mountain, you MUST read Like Lions. The title makes no sense but don't let that stop you.

If you enjoyed the TV series Justified you will enjoy this ... if you didn't, you probably won't. I did... and I did.

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