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In the latest action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado´s marijuana business.

In the latest thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado´s marijuana business.

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Denver, Colorado.

Peter Ash is wearing an armoured vest, has a pistol strapped to his leg, a semi-automatic rifle by his side, and a large stash of drugs money behind him. It´s hot, the static is buzzing and he´s trying not to think about what happened last week.

Ash is riding shotgun in a truck leased to Heavy Metal Protection, a security firm that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Just seven days ago, Heavy Metal lost an entire vehicle, crew and cargo, disappearing without a trace.

Armed robbery? Double homicide? Whatever, Ash is there to make sure it doesn´t happen again. There´s no doubt he has the skill set for the job: eight years of hard-won combat experience and a nervous system fused on high alert - a crippling liability in civilian life... but a survival trait in a combat zone.

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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.

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Petrie, Nick
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 <i>The Seattle Review</i>. His first novel, <i>The Drifter</i>, won the International Thriller Writers Award and the Barry for Best First Novel.

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