The Drifter
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
'Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal' Lee Child.
Cette série de thrillers explosifs suit un vétéran qui découvre que les démons de la guerre ne sont pas facilement laissés derrière. Chaque épisode le plonge dans de nouvelles situations dangereuses où il doit s'appuyer sur ses compétences de combat pour survivre et protéger les autres. C'est une lecture captivante pleine d'action, explorant le choc entre les luttes personnelles et les menaces extérieures.
'Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal' Lee Child.
PRAISE FOR THE DRIFTER : 'Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal' Lee Child. 'A gripping, beautifully written novel' Huffington Post . 'A stunning debut novel ... The pace is like a sniper round, extraordinarily fast and precisely calibrated' David Baldacci.
In the latest thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's marijuana business.
In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into a deadlier one--in the City of the Blues.Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. But when Peter arrives in Memphis, he finds the situation has gone downhill fast--someone has just driven a dump truck into Wanda's living room. But neither Wanda nor Peter can figure out why.At the same time, a young homeless street musician finds himself roped into a plan to rob a jewelry store. The heist doesn't go as planned, and the young man finds himself holding a sack full of Rolexes and running for his life. When his getaway car breaks down, he steals a new one at gunpoint--Peter's 1968 green Chevrolet pickup truck.Peter likes the skinny kid's smarts and attitude, but he soon discovers that the desperate musician is in far worse trouble than he knows. And Wanda's troubles are only beginning. Peter finds himself stuck between Memphis gangsters--looking for Rolexes and revenge--and a Mississippi ex-con and his hog-butcher brother looking for a valuable piece of family history that goes all the way back to the Civil War.
Struggling with PTSD, veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane - until a grieving woman asks him to find her grandson. The woman's daughter has been murdered. Her husband Erik is the sole suspect. Finding the boy becomes more complicated when Peter is met at the airport by a man from the US Embassy. For unknown reasons Peter's own government doesn't want him in Iceland, and when he refuses to leave they start hunting him. Now Peter must confront his PTSD and amidst a powerful Icelandic snowstorm, find a killer, save a child, and keep himself out of prison...