Peter Ash must follow his closest friend, Lewis, into the criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear in this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning series.
Lewis has helped Peter Ash out of more trouble than Peter cares to remember. So he doesn’t hesitate when Lewis asks a favor in return. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must drive into the teeth of a blizzard to find him. When they discover blood in the snow and a smoldering cabin, both men know things are bad. Then they learn that someone has stolen notebooks full of incriminating secrets about Lewis's long-ago crimes, and realize the situation is much worse than they'd thought.
To save Lewis’s wife, Dinah, and her two boys, Lewis and Peter must find the notebooks. With Peter's longtime girlfriend, June Cassidy, they begin the search—facing ruthless and violent foes at each turn, including one powerful person who will stop at nothing for revenge. Will Peter and Lewis be able to keep that dark past buried? Or will they need to step into the darkness to save the people they love most?
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"Petrie shows off his action-writing chops with a series of vivid, remarkably clear firefights and, in between, pauses to recover."
— Booklist
The eighth danger-dripping crime thriller featuring Peter Ash… Action junkies will love this one.
— Kirkus ReviewsLots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Peter Ash is the real deal.
— Lee ChildThe hype about Nick Petrie is real—he’s just that damn good!
— Mark GreaneyNonstop action at a machine gun pace.
— C.J. BoxPeter Ash is one of the most complexcharacters I’ve come across in a long time.
— David BaldacciIf you’re not already on the Peter Ash train, jump aboard now. Nick Petrie is doing headliner work.
— Robert CraisFor me, no crime-fiction character has ever measured up to Jack Reacher—until, that is, I met Peter Ash.
— Entertainment WeeklyPetrie excels at propulsive pacing whilekeeping his characters compelling, daring, and,best of all, morally courageous.
— Minneapolis Star TribuneNick Petrie proves himself to be a maestro, wielding his keyboard with all the deftness of a master conductor’s baton.
— Providence JournalNicholas Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and his story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the Seattle Review, a national literary journal.
Stephen Mendel was educated in Montreal, Canada, graduated from Bishop’s University with a BA in drama, and immediately began working in theater. Film and TV roles soon followed. He moved to Los Angeles, where he had roles in the CBS TV series Night Heat. He subsequently went on to guest star on numerous television shows and appear in many feature films. A master of accents and dialects, he narrates audiobooks and performs voice work in animation, narration, video games, and radio and television commercials.