War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and stark landscape he has ever encountered, in the latest thriller from the bestselling author of The Drifter.Losing ground in his fight against post-traumatic claustrophobia, war veteran Peter Ash has no intention of getting on an airplane–until a grieving woman asks Peter to find her eight-year-old … find her eight-year-old grandson. The woman’s daughter has been murdered. Erik, the dead daughter’s husband, is the sole suspect, and he has taken his young son and fled to Iceland for the protection of Erik’s lawless family.
Finding the boy becomes more complicated when Peter is met at the airport by a man from the United States Embassy. For reasons both unknown and unofficial, it seems that Peter’s own government doesn’t want him in Iceland. The police give Peter two days of sightseeing in Reykjavik before he must report back for the first available seat home. . . and when they realize Peter isn’t going home until he accomplishes his mission, they start hunting him, too.
From the northernmost European capital to a rustbound fishing vessel to a remote farm a stone’s throw from the arctic, Peter must confront his growing PTSD and the most powerful Icelandic snowstorm in a generation to find a killer, save an eight-year-old boy, and keep himself out of an Icelandic prison–or a cold Icelandic grave.
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If you’re not already on the #PeterAsh train, jump aboard now. #TheWildOne is a beautifully written novel, rich with deep, complex characters, full-throttle action, and a superbly realized setting. Nick Petrie is doing headliner work.
I couldn’t put this mystery-thriller down. The setting in Iceland was phenomenal. The writing excellent, the story believable.
Riveting
In the “Peter Ash” series by author Nick Petrie, book number five was exciting and entertaining. This book diverged from many familiar characters and settings to new characters and a new location in Iceland. Even though there are new characters, they are solid and noteworthy. Peter gets himself in deeper trouble than ever, and this ride is ice-cold. Stephen Mendel’s narration was excellent.
This may be my favorite Peter Ash since he was introduced in book 1. Peter’s trying to get a handle on his stress-related claustrophobia, but it’s not working. When a former Marines contact asks him to take on a task related to finding a missing boy, Peter draws on his unique skill set and travels to a frozen locale where both the land and the people are out for his blood.
This was a real page-turner, a perfect companion for a tense stay-at-home time where you need some escapist reading. Peter gets compared a lot to Jack Reacher, but I find him to be more of an updated Bob Lee Swagger, a highly-skilled vet who’s trying to keep his sh*t together when all around him are trying to bring him down. I’m loving the series and I look forward to more Peter Ash books.
This maybe Petrie’s finest Peter Ash novel. Peter fights his PTSD demons across America to Iceland to save a little boy whose parents have been killed to cover up one man’s secrets. Petrie describes the scenery and Ash’s struggles in vivid color, bringing the reader into the heart of the storm!
This is my fifth book by Petrie and I haven’t been disappointed yet. His descriptions of Iceland and its people are vivid. It’s like you’re there. (I know he did a backpacking trip there with his son and did research, It shows here).
Interesting, entertaining and scary. Especially, the length some govt types can get away with to cover their corruption! Without care who gets hurt or worse. Even family. Brutal. Worth the time. Great read…
Nick Petrie’s exceptional writing has earned him comparisons to many of the thriller-genre greats, but The Wild One announces that period has come to an end: Petrie is setting the bar, not reaching for it.
This is the fifth volume in the Peter Ash series, about a veteran with PTSD that tends to solve problems using his military skills. This time Peter is drawn into a case in Iceland, where he is looking for a missing child whose mother was murdered. The landscape became a part of the story and now I want to go visit. In past volumes, Peter has called on friends to help with the situation, but in this case he is working alone, although does get help with computer research on people that appear to be involved. Highly recommended.
it is a nice thriller but not great. it is enjoyable but have it flaws. i admit it took me around 60 pages to start to enjoy. l have read any of Patrie thrillers before. so to take for granted that the reader knows the history and the burden Ash is carry in his wounded soul takes time. the title is exactly what you meet first – a wild one. slowly we find out why he is so brutal and aggressive to humanity or to the worst part of it. Patrie have a great sense of landscape and his description of the wild nature of Iceland is great. problem is that dialogues are minimal and used to move plot and not to enrich other characters which most of them stay in the shallow side. there is one intriguing irish killer which is built delicately even better than two main characters – the murdered parents of the boy who keep the secret of a an evil done by a civil servant close to the usa top. all this story of a plot is a bit weak.
on the whole enjoyable and really good writing. there is a lot of soul of the writer which float out and this is nice when you can feel the person, the writer.