Peter Ash · #4

Tear It Down

Nick Petrie

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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. When Peter arrives in Memphis, however, 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.

Published
January 15, 2019
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Nick Petrie

Few thriller writers manage to marry raw physicality with emotional depth the way Nick Petrie does. His novels aren’t just fast-paced—they hum with tension born from real-world scars. At the heart of his bestselling Peter Ash series is a veteran struggling to find peace in a country that doesn’t quite know what to do with him. Ash isn’t a hero in the classic mold—he’s restless, damaged, fiercely competent, and often alone. And it’s precisely this uneasy combination that makes him—and Petrie’s work—so compelling. Petrie didn’t grow up dreaming of writing thrillers. He grew up in the Midwest, learning how to use his hands—building things,…