Tear It Down
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4.3 • 1.1천개의 평가
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In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues.
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.
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Thriller Award winner Petrie's gripping fourth Peter Ash novel (after 2018's Light It Up) takes the war vet to Memphis at the behest of girlfriend June Cassidy. June is concerned that her friend Wanda Wyatt, a former war photographer who's even more psychologically damaged than Peter, is in danger. Peter soon ascertains that's the case when Wanda's ramshackle home is bulldozed by a garbage truck. Wanda refuses to vacate the ruined house even after a nighttime machine gun assault. But what do her attackers, two ex-con brothers, want? Meanwhile, 15-year-old homeless blues guitarist Eli Bell gets roped into a disastrous jewelry store heist by some fellow wastrels and goes on the run. When Eli steals Peter's pickup truck at gunpoint, the inveterate do-gooder Peter decides to help the imperiled kid anyway. While logic sometimes takes a holiday as these dual stories unspool, and the finale's high-speed car chase strains credulity, there's no denying that Petrie is hell on wheels at mounting lethal action face-offs. A close cousin to Lee Childs's more analytical Jack Reacher, Peter Ash is one of today's more exciting action heroes. Author tour.)
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Tore It Up
Forget Reacher, Ash is the new rolling stone—only he gathers mean and cool friends like bright fresh moss to give the traveling good bad guy more heart than a big giant could ever carry.
Tear vit Down. Nick Petrie
Peter Ash who is still struggling to get a handle on his PTSD is asked by his lover June Cassidy to drive to Memphis Tennessee and help her friend Wanda Wyatt. Peter drives to Memphis not knowing what to expect. When he arrives he see’s someone has driven a Mack truck into Wanda’s living room. Then a homemade armored truck pulls up and begins to fire military grade ammunition into the structure. What ensues is a fast passed action thriller of mega proportions. Enjoyed immensely!! My highest recommendation!!
A bit lazy
I’ve read a few in this series and I kinda feel the main character isn’t evolving much. As to this story line, well it’s kinda far fetched, lots of shooting and blowing up stuff in Memphis but never any law enforcement in sight. I liked the characters, just an ok story , and the main character doing what he always does. It’s an ok read that doesn’t leave me wanting more of the main character.