Running From Lions

“Running From Lions is a rich African mystery metaphorically pace like a lurking, crouching lion toying with its prey by allowing an exotic lark before launching its devastating attack ...It is a work transcending genre with haunting, pervasive ambiguity in a masterful archetypal journey into love, racism, and avarice.”
-Thane Boulton, Thane and Prose

“The African continent is mysterious and rugged and can be dangerous. Lions and elephants and impala and wildebeests roam the veld. So do men. Erik Powell, Sr. takes us on an exciting safari, one that has the smell of verisimilitude about it.”
- Barthélemy Banks, the Mumm trilogy

An international cast of sophisticates on safari in South Africa are harassed by a killer lion – and by a human killer – in the last days of Mandela. Two Americans visit an African wildlife reserve run by a German family. A mysterious curfew restricts their movements, but guided daily forays into the Lowveld and liberating Happy Hours allow new relationships to form and to develop – and to cause old resentments to resurface and to fester, leading to murder.

Erik Powell, Sr. is a Greenville, SC, native recently retired and relocated to Key West to write. Running From Lions, based on the author’s South African safari in 2013, was a Finalist in the 2018 Mystery Fest Key West’s Whodunit competition. A romantic comedy play, Chicago Love Tapestry, was the Literary Night Choice of the Ganymede Fall Arts Festival in Washington, DC, and a novella adaptation was serialized in Music And Lit Review. Mr. Powell served as Literary Editor of Thane Prose and Press in NYC and was recently promoted to Editor-in-Chief by founder Neal Boulton.