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Award-winning debut thriller introducing a new compelling hero to rival Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne.

Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: the buzzing claustrophobia due to PTSD. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash helps the man´s widow with some home repairs. But he makes an unexpected discovery: a suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives.

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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...

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´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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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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