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The drifter, Nicholas Petrie

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fiction

The drifter

Nicholas Petrie

Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with a buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. When a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the largest, ugliest, meanest dog he's ever encountered... and a Samsonite suitcase stuffed with cash and explosives. Soon Ash is at the center of a plot that is far larger than he could have imagined-- and it may lead straight back to the world he thought he'd left for good