The First Explosive Thriller Featuring Peter Ash, A Veteran Who Finds That The Demons Of War Aren't Easily Left Behind... Lots Of Characters Get Compared To My Own Jack Reacher, But Petrie's Peter Ash Is The Real Deal.--lee Child Peter Ash Came Home From The Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan With Only One Souvenir: What He Calls His White Static, The Buzzing Claustrophobia Due To Post-traumatic Stress That Has Driven Him To Spend A Year Roaming In Nature, Sleeping Under The Stars. But 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. As Ash Begins To Investigate This Unexpected Discovery, He Finds Himself 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.