**Winner of the ITW Thriller Award for Best First NovelFrom a remarkable voice in Southern fiction comes a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance.**Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made its home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family’s criminal empire, Clayton took the job of sh...

La pace che regna su Bull Mountain, dopo che lo sceriffo Clayton Burroughs ha ucciso suo fratello Halford, è solo apparente: ora che la montagna e i suoi sentieri sono privi di padroni, molti altri fuorilegge attendono il momento giusto per prendere il controllo dei traffici di marijuana, whiskey e anfetamina, da decenni nelle mani dei Burroughs. Clayton, però, non si è ancora ripreso dalle ferite provocate dallo scontro a fuoco con l'agente federale Simon Holly, e non ha la forza di reagi...

Clayton Burroughs appartiene a una famiglia di fuorilegge che, da generazioni, mantiene il controllo di Bull Mountain, trafficando whiskey di mais, marijuana e infine metanfetamina. Per lasciarsi alle spalle le sue origini, Clayton sposa la bella Kate e diventa lo sceriffo della città a valle. Ma quando l'agente federale Simon Holly minaccia di distruggere l'impero dei Burroughs, Clayton si trova a dover affrontare i ricordi, le paure, il disprezzo della famiglia e la volontà di redimere u...

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian Panowich, author of Bull Mountain, Like Lions, and Hard Cash Valley, delivers a gripping new chapter in his tales of McFalls County in Nothing But the Bones.In McFalls County, local crime boss Gareth Burroughs runs everything on the mountain. And Nelson “Nails” McKenna has been his enforcer since he was a teenager, though his heart's...

MARILYN STASIO, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – ONE OF THE 10 BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR"The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it’s the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred souls, who really get under your skin.” — Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewReturn to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley*, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale...

"A book filled with unforgettable characters and a tension that heightens with every chapter." ***—***The Wall Street JournalA 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 pla...

Nelson "Nails" McKenna è solo un ragazzino quando, quasi senza volerlo, diventa uno scagnozzo di Gareth Burroughs, il temuto boss che alla fine degli anni Ottanta controlla il territorio di Bull Mountain. Dieci anni dopo, Nails aggredisce uno sconosciuto in un bar per soccorrere una ragazza. L'uomo muore, e ci sono troppi testimoni perché Nails possa scampare alla legge. Gareth quindi lo costringe a fuggire in Florida, per ricominciare da zero. Mentre viaggia verso un destino incerto, la s...

Il passato del detective Dane Kirby è popolato di fantasmi: ha perso moglie e figlia in un incidente che non riesce a perdonarsi, e a distanza di anni fatica a rimettersi in sesto. Quando l'Fbi inizia a indagare sulla morte di Arnie Blackwell, un criminale con il vizio del gioco brutalmente assassinato in Florida, Dane viene chiamato ad affiancare l'agente Roselita Velasquez, che non sembra gradire l'intrusione del nuovo collega. Eppure Dane è l'uomo chiave per il caso: tutti gli indizi po...

An eshort story introduces readers to Brian Panowich's brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions (4/30/19)."No king lives forever, and Gareth was getting old."Enter the world of Brian Panowich, where Gareth Burroughs runs McFalls county, in north Georgia, and all the criminal enterprises therein. Two of his three sons, Halford and Buckley, are aiming to follow in his footsteps. The third, Clayton, has turned his bac...

'The plotting is skilled, as is the sleuthing, and the landscape is stunning. But it's the hard-jawed characters, with their tough talk and scarred souls, who really get under your skin' - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewReturn to McFalls County and Bull Mountain in Hard Cash Valley, where Brian Panowich weaves another masterful tale of Southern Noir.Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long reside...

El contundente e implacable debut que ha revitalizado el panorama del country noir.«Una novela que tiene de todo: whisky, marihuana, metanfetamina, armas y caos familiar. Léanla ya y sucumban al increíble talento de Panowich».JAMES ELLROY«No es solo una sagaz y adictiva ópera prima, sino una buena novela negra, punto. No puedo esperar a ver con qué nos sorprende este autor la próxima vez».JOHN CONNOLLYDurante generaciones, el clan Burroughs ...

For decades the blood-steeped Burroughs clan ruled Bull Mountain, Georgia. They ran moonshine across borderlines, farmed marijuana and supplied meth across six states.Now they're gone, leaving Clayton – the only good son born of a crooked tree – the last surviving member. As sheriff of Bull Mountain, Clayton wants to bury his brutal family legacy and call time on the savage feuds that built the Burroughs empire.But predators are moving in, wanting to re-establish the flow o...