The Broken King, Brian Panowich
The Broken King, Brian Panowich
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The Broken King
A McFalls County Story

Author: Brian Panowich

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Unabridged: 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

A short story introduces listeners to Brian Panowich's brutal, mesmerizing North Georgia landscape, in preparation for Like Lions.

"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 back on the family and become a lawman, a sheriff in town. In Bull Mountain, the brothers' inevitable confrontation will change life in the county forever. In Like Lions, the last man standing, Clayton, must finally reckon with his heritage, and with the expectations of everyone left in his father's and brothers' organization. But before Bull Mountain, before Like Lions, there was "The Broken King," and a final confrontation on a very cold night.

About Brian Panowich

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 10, 2019

now that Like Lions is out, you can read this! ********************************** oh my god, this exists?? it does! and now i have read it! it exists and it is 23 pages long and even though, chronologically, it can be called a prequel to Bull Mountain and Like Lions, and is (presumably) being released......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on March 14, 2019

Fabulous short story, can't wait to read the next novel!......more

Goodreads review by Richard on January 01, 2021

This short story set in the world of Bull Mountain is another great showcase of Panowich’s knack for brutal and engaging storytelling. Throughout the author’s first two novels, we get hints as to the circumstances surrounding clan patriarch Gareth Burroughs’s death, but this time we witness exactly......more


Quotes

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