Bull Mountain (Paperback, 272 pg) Brian Panowich

A story about family, and the lengths men will go to protect it, honour it, or, in some cases, destroy it. In a sweeping narrative spanning decades and told from alternating points of view, this incredibly assured novel brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of the mountain and its inhabitants: forbidding, loyal, gritty, and ruthless. Bull Mountain heralds a major new talent in fiction. “This cracking debut keeps the reader guessing through a series of gripping twists with an ending that you won’t see coming. This sprawling, gritty crime epic set in dope-damned hillbilly country signals the arrival of a major new talent” – Daily Express. “It’s been described as ‘country noir’, ‘Southern noir’ and even ‘hillbilly noir’, but none of these terms quite captures the breadth, the humour, the style or the kick-ass conclusion that you won’t see coming that make it one of the best crime novels of the year’ Sydney Morning Herald. Read more below.

Brian Panowich

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Clayton Burroughs is sheriff of Bull Mountain and black sheep of the brutal and blood-steeped Burroughs clan. In the forties and fifties, the family ran moonshine over six state lines. In the sixties and seventies, they farmed the largest marijuana crop on the East Coast, and now they are the dominant suppliers of methamphetamine in the South.

An uneasy pact exists between the law man and his folk, but when a federal agent shows up in Clayton’s office with a plan to shut down Bull Mountain, his agenda will pit brother against brother and set Clayton on the path to self-destruction.

BULL MOUNTAIN is a story about family, and the lengths men will go to protect it, honour it, or, in some cases, destroy it.

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