Tear It Down - Nick Petrie

Tear It Down

By Nick Petrie

  • Release Date: 2019-01-15
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 993 Ratings)

Description

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.

Reviews

  • Tear vit Down. Nick Petrie

    5
    By Wet again
    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!!
  • Great read, very exciting and insightful

    5
    By One year plan
    Great read with excellent insight into some of the current events that defy any logic….until you get to have a little more understanding about what life is like in areas/cultures that you’ve never experienced. Definitely worth reading.
  • Terrible ending!

    2
    By Bob852201
    Hated the ending. Too many loose ends! Kill my Ash goodbye!
  • Ash is a great character

    5
    By zyx cba
    A very good read!
  • Reacher Move Over

    5
    By Kuhox
    Jack Reacher is a tortured soul but Peter Ash is broken and it’s what makes him so good. With morality as his only compass his actions and trouble will not let you put the book down. The stories are crazy without making you jump the shark.
  • Reviews not good enough.

    5
    By Myzkyla
    These books need to be experienced. A lot of understanding to be had through this Veteran’s eyes and the crazy situations he winds up in. They happen fast and sleek so set aside some time to finish in one sitting.
  • Tear it down

    2
    By Not a mindreader
    Author used up half of the story with irrelevant details. Except for that this could have been a great action story
  • Great thriller

    5
    By Bellas daddy
    Great book with lots of characters. Really “gets” the city (some of the most outlandish parts really happened!). Even manages to work in William Faulkner’s Oxford, Ms. Hotty Toddy!!!
  • Awful

    1
    By jmwcaj2
    May be the worst last 100 pages I have ever read. I thought I had found a new author but then reality set in. Just awful.
  • More of a fairy tale than a thriller

    3
    By iheartjoo
    ... and not in a good way. This author built from a flawed-but-promising debut in some solid follow-up novels. I thought maybe I’d found my new regular, a writer who still had the fire that Lee Child had before he got rich, seasonal, and lazy. Alas. This book is a big step back. The fundamentals are mostly still there which saves it from two stars, but the plot and character motivations are sad and shallow, and while the writing shines in places it’s just as likely to be hackneyed and predictable in others. This should have been a good book. This could have been a good book. Instead it’s a step back for the author, and reads like a press release issued by conventional modern notions of righteousness.

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