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The Drifter

por Nick Petrie

Series: Peter Ash (1)

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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren??t easily left behind...

??Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie??s Peter Ash is the real deal.???Lee Child

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Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his ??white static,? the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars.

But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man??s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he??s ever encountered...and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives.

As Ash begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined...and it may lead straight back to the world he th… (más)
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Apparently compared (even by Lee Child) as the 'Next Reacher' it has a similar vibe but doesn't quite work as well.

Peter Ash is a marine vet, returned to the US with almost claustrophobia, the noise and bustle of modern living builds a pressure/noise until he has to leave for the peace and quiet. He's spent a year living in the wilderness in the hope that he can forget some of the trauma, but still isn't fully recovered when news eventually reaches him that one of his sergeants has committed suicide. This seems a bit unlike the man he used to know, and in any case he feels a sense of guilt, duty and responsibility, for not looking after the men who were in his care, so he musters the fortitude to travel to the widow and see if he can help. Living out of a truck, he finds that she could use his carpentry skills, so he's rebuilding her porch when he discovers a mildewed suitcase full of cash and plastic explosive. Now he has to find out what his friend has become involved with.

Giving a hero a mental illness is a bold choice that needs to handled carefully, and I don't think the author has quite achieved this. You can't just 'power through' such things when it's convenient, you can't have them sometimes able to to cope and only bring the sensations back when they can be managed. For those truly afflicted, there is no choice or willpower involved. Other than that the complex motivations and carefully clues and plotting seemed well contrived. ( )
  reading_fox | Jan 14, 2024 |
The Drifter is a U.S. Veteran. He is a very good soul who found himself with a horrible claustrophobic condition, as a result of war. There are other veterans in the book who also suffer from various conditions, as a result of the war. So as not to spoil the story with this review, it is a bit of a thriller at the end. Four stars were given to this book. ( )
  lbswiener | Aug 16, 2023 |
More like 3.5 stars...but Jack Reacher like? Not so much, maybe Reacher light? Which isn't to say it wasn't a good book, it was a very good book, I just don't like these character comparisons so much...comparisons not withstanding...great read with a good message. I look forward to picking up the rest. ( )
  MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 |
It's hard to believe this is the authors first book. A decent story, well executed, with interesting believable characters, excellent story execution, and well written action. The only downside was it was easy to figure out who the bad guys were, and how they were tied together. I will definitely check out the next book. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
Interesting point of view and voices of veterans wrapped up in a thriller. ( )
  cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |
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Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren??t easily left behind...

??Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie??s Peter Ash is the real deal.???Lee Child


Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his ??white static,? the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars.

But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man??s widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he??s ever encountered...and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives.

As Ash begins to investigate this unexpected discovery, he finds himself at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined...and it may lead straight back to the world he th

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