The Drifter by Nick Petrie

The Drifter by Nick Petrie

Eight years a soldier, Peter Ash came home from Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls 'white static', a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming the Pacific coast's mountains and forests, sleeping under the stars.

But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow and two young children. While repairing her dilapidated porch, he makes two unwelcome discoveries: The first is a dog, the meanest, ugliest dog he's ever laid eyes on, guarding a suitcase; the second unwelcome surprise is the suitcase's contents – $400,000 in cash and four slabs of plastic explosive.

Just what was his friend caught up in during his final days? Ash will find that the demons of war aren't easy to leave behind...

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
Keep an eye out in 2018 for a new American hero, Peter Ash, in an excellent series of thrillers from Head of Zeus * Shots Magazine *

Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction, and his story 'At the Laundromat' won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the Seattle Review. His debut novel featuring ex-soldier Peter Ash, The Drifter, won numerous awards including the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel in 2017.

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ISBN 13	9781788542456
ISBN 10	1788542452
Title	The Drifter
Author	Nick Petrie
Series	Ash
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2017-12-14
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of International Thriller Writers Best First Novel 2017
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