Shadow of the Lions, Christopher Swann
Shadow of the Lions, Christopher Swann
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Shadow of the Lions
A Novel

Author: Christopher Swann

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 12 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2017


Synopsis

How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? It has been almost ten years since Matthias graduated from the elite Blackburne School, where his roommate and best friend, Fritz, fled into the woods, never to be heard from again, in the middle of their senior year. Fritz vanished just after an argument over Matthias's breaking of the school's honor code, and Matthias has long been haunted by the idea that his betrayal led to his friend's disappearance.

Years later, after hitting the fast lane in New York as a successful novelist—then falling twice as hard—Matthias is stuck, a failure as a writer, a boyfriend, a person. When he is offered the opportunity to return to Blackburne as an English teacher, he sees it as a chance to put his life back together. But once on campus, Matthias gets swiftly drawn into the past, and is driven to find out what happened to Fritz. He partners with a curmudgeonly local retired cop and tries to solve the case, dealing with campus politics, the shocking death of a student, Fritz's complicated and powerful Washington, D.C., family, and his own place in the privileged world of Blackburne.

About Christopher Swann

Christopher Swann is chair of the English department at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School in Atlanta,Georgia, where he has taught English for twenty-one years. He attended Woodberry Forest School, an all-male boarding school in Virginia, for all four years of high school. He has a BA with honors from Washington and Lee University, an MA in English/creative writing from the University of Missouri Columbia, and a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Georgia, with his wife and two sons.


Reviews

I probably bumped this book up a half a star because I have a few personal reasons that I loved it so much. First, the author based much of the description of the boarding school in this book on a school that is dear to my heart - Woodberry Forest School. My son attended this school with the author,......more