Monday, March 30, 2020

let's team Ash & Reacher

The Wild One by Nick Petrie; 2020; $26.00; 381 pages; G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY; 978-0-525-53544-7; checked out from Multnomah County Library, Woodstock; 3/7/2020-3/10/2020

Peter Ash is a Iraq war veteran suffering from several types of PTSD particularly claustrophobia.  He is isn't keen about airplane rides but he takes one to Iceland, when a grieving grandmother request that he try to find her missing grandson. Once he gets to Iceland the U.S. Government tries to get him kicked out.  Iceland gives him a deadline of three days to visit the country.  When he misses that deadline and continues to search for the boy he comes up against the Icelandic police, corrupt parts of the U.S.  government, and family members trying to protect the boy.   Let's just say it doesn't end well for anyone except the grandson, grandmother and Ash.  
Ash is a vigilante in the same vein as Jack Reacher but with many more problems than Reacher, however I think it would be interesting to see them work together.

10/10

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