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Like Lions: A Novel (Bull Mountain, 2) Paperback – March 31, 2020

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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.

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“The thrills keep coming . . . In the vein of Grisham and Burke, Panowich zips readers along with action backed by delightfully rhythmic storytelling.” ― Garden and Gun

“Excellent . . . It's the emotional complexity of Burroughs . . . as well as the brass knuckle punch of an ending that will have readers applauding. This is hillbilly noir at its finest.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review

“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 . . . moves at a brisk clip, leading to a stunning, yet believable, finale.” ― Associated Press

“Action and reflection are skillfully balanced in a vigorously written, trenchant tale.” ― Kirkus Reviews

“Like Lions is excellent fiction, period. Buy, read, and enjoy.” ― The New York Journal of Books

“Panowich is a terrific storyteller with a way with words . . . Fine country noir.” ― Don Crinklaw, Booklist

“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

"Brian Panowich's new novel, LIKE LIONS, is 272 pages of pure-dee rompin', stompin', ass-kickin' reader's delight." ―Daniel Woodrell

“If Elmore Leonard and Flannery O’Connor had a love child who grew up reading William Faulkner, pulp fiction, and a Shakespearean tragedy or two, he’d write like Brian Panowich. His characters are knotty, tangled people who try and fail and frustrate yet keep going, fueled by something as bone deep as family or fear, or both…You’re in for a hell of a ride.” ―Christopher Swann, author of Shadow of the Lions

Praise for Bull Mountain

"A satisfying and smartly constructed book whose time-shifting sequences build suspense even as they parcel out telling revelations. Once events are in full play, there’s no turning back.”― The Wall Street Journal

“[Brian Panowich] pulls off [a] daunting undertaking with astounding success . . . The storytelling is mesmerizing." ― The New York Times Book Review

"One of the best multi-generational family sagas in years.” ― The Huffington Post

“Prose as punchy as rapid-aged whiskey.” ― Esquire

“A brilliant debut novel . . . extraordinary.” ― Atlanta Magazine

“Bull Mountain is a stone gas and a stone winner! It’s brother-versus-brother in the dope-damned South. This first novel has it all: moonshine, maryjane and mayhem! Read this book now – and succumb to a startling new talent.” – James Ellroy, author of Perfidia

About the Author

Brian Panowich is an award winning author, a Georgia firefighter, and a father to four incredible children. His first novel, Bull Mountain, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, ITW Thriller Award winner for Best First Novel, Southern Book Prize winner, and a finalist for both the Anthony and the Barry Awards. He lives in Georgia with his family.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books (March 31, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250248256
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250248251
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.49 x 0.89 x 8.25 inches

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Rebecca Forster

Simply Perfect

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024

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I always love an exciting plot; what I love more is a fabulous story. In this case, the plot informs a story of such depth that it is breathtaking. Location becomes a character, characters are products of the environment, motivation is driven by layers of believable associations. Panowich is especially adroit at penning his female characters. No pandering no political correctness. I wanted to know these women; I wanted to be them. Truly an up-all-night thriller.

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The reluctant warrior answers the call.

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019

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Action packed, fast moving and ends with a bang, literally. Centered around the narcotics/meth trade in the hills of southern Georgia. Our hero is the local sheriff whose father was a big time drug dealer. He starts off as a reluctant warrior in the fight with the new drug Kingpin, but ultimately gets pulled in. Some really bad characters, lots of action and a satisfying conclusion.

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Bella Mia

Put your seat belt on!!!

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024

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WOW!! I have now read all three books in this series, and what a great set of books!! This is a story about a
Moonshiners family in northern Georgia and all their families conflicts and trials. Very well written, right
Down and full of grit. Get your copy now, but read Bull Mountain first.

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2020

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"Like Lyons" continues the story began in the debut novel "Bull Mountain" set in North Georgia and really should be read prior to this book to grasp the whole story. That said, since the death of Hal Burroughs, the violent leader of the clan that have lived on Bull Mountain for decades and the destruction of their drug empire by the feds there is left a lack of leadership to carry on their way of life. The surviving member of the family is Clayton Burroughs who is the local sheriff and logical one to take up the mantle of leadership but does he want to?

At the same time a blood feud ramps up between the clan on Bull Mountain and another nearby clan when one of their own is killed in a gunfight in a shabby moonshine saloon. Then there are a group of outsiders who approach the sheriff seeking his help in keeping open their opiate supply route that runs through his county heading north,

The author has written an excellent novel that is tightly plotted with many twists and turns revolving around family and loyalty despite the hatred that it fomented. The protagonist is a shattered weak man who is racked with self pity and guilt over his failings and is not particularly likable but maybe there is time for him to pull himself together and do the right thing. This book is extremely crude and violent but done in such a way that it fits within the story and not just there for shock value. This is one hell of a good book and is highly recommended by this reader. i look look forward to future efforts by this new upcoming author who deserves a wide readership following!

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Phillip W. De Vous

A Superb Sequel that Demands a Sequel!

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2019

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A superb follow-up to Bull Mountain. I enjoyed every word of it, though the decline Clayton in psychological and alcoholic decline was in some measure over presented. And the end of one of the great villains of the mountain was strikingly anti-climatic and disappointing. And yet that villain meets his end in a way that’s likely a very real portrayal of how such characters meet their end in real life.

Those criticisms aside, I once again felt deeply inserted into the culture, cruelty, and violence that characterizes the world of Bull Mountain. The characters are well-developed and you feel like part of the crew that brawls within and rules a corner of the world that is both close and foreign.

There’s a hint of a plot device leading to a surprising ending that could easily fail in the hands of a lesser storyteller. The surprising ending doesn’t work IF this is the last novel involving these fascinating characters with their cruel and bloody code that no longer really works, if it ever did. I’m confident we’re going to hear more from the Burroughs clan and Bull Mountain. I look forward to it.

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R.Jones

Thin and contrived forced sequel

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2022

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I rarely review books and take no joy in giving a bad review. But I was moved to do so for this book. I loved Bull Mountain (at least up to the out of tune ending). This book in no way compares to Bull Mountain. It's a forced, disjointed, shadow of its predecessor. Bull Mountain was written as a stand alone and the ending changed to set up a sequel, and series. It fails. I rarely don't finish a book. But I couldn't finish this one. Very disappointing.

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2020

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Like Lions is a title that will make sense somewhere in this book. It's the sequel to the amazing novel Bull Mountain, which I would recommend you read first. Bull Mountain was a taste of Southern noir that pitted two brothers against each other in a complicated relationship that spanned generations. They were the Sheriff and the Outlaw King of the Mountain, the yin and the yang, sort of.

Like Lions takes place after the end of Bull Mountain and Clayton is broken in body and spirit and his wife Kate doesn't know how to heal him or which is the greater crutch for him, the busted leg or the morning whiskey. The Feds have cleared out the mountain, as much as they could. But, power abhors a vacuum and forces are conspiring to move into this wide open territory without a Burroughs sitting on the throne.

The question gif Clayton has always been whether he can keep his hands clean and be the law on the mountain or whether, like Michael Corleone, he has to take up the throne on top of the mountain to protect his friends and kin whether he wants to or not. How far does he have to compromise and bend and still be who he thinks he is. What does he have to do to protect what's his.

Like Lions is a powerful crime story played out in rural north Georgia. But, like with Bull Mountain, don't make the mistake of thinking this is just another bang-bang shoot me up. It's not.

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colleen e stuckey

Surpassing the excellence of Bull Mountain

Reviewed in Canada on August 11, 2020

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What a fantastic writer! After devouring Bull Mountain I immediately bought this book. There’s always a fear that the sequel cannot live up to the first book but Like Lions was even better - I did not think that was possible! Complex, multifaceted characters whose choices are not predictable. The plot builds and builds, hurtling to a startling conclusion. Only at the very conclusion does the title make sense. A deep bow to Brian Panowich.