Review – Light It Up by Nick Petrie @_NickPetrie_ @PutnamBooks

Light It Up by Nick Petrie
Series: Peter Ash #3
Publisher: Penguin Group – Putnam G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Publication Date: January 16, 2018
Date Read: January 14, 2018
Length: 400 pages
Source: NetGalley
★★★★☆

“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”–Lee Child

In the newest action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado’s mellowest business, but Ash may find there’s more to this crime than meets the eye.

Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry’s son-in-law and the company’s operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry’s daughter and her company vulnerable.

Then, when Peter is riding shotgun on another cash run, the cargo he’s guarding comes under attack from hijackers and he narrowly escapes with his life. As the incidents mount, he has to wonder: for criminals as sophisticated as these, is this money really worth the risk? And if not, what about his cargo is worth more?

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I enjoyed this book!  This book reads like an action movie in a lot of ways.  It was exciting and there are so many adrenaline filled scenes that keep the excitement level high.  This is the third book in the Peter Ash series but I do think that it could be read as a stand alone since it tells its own story.  I had such a good time reading this book and found it to be quite the page turner.

Peter is such a great character.  I almost think that he can do anything after reading this book.  He is smart. resourceful, and incredibly tough.  I am not sure that a real man could do all the things that Peter was able to accomplish in this book but I don’t care since it was such a fun read.  Peter must deal PTSD as a result of some of the things he has seen and done as a Marine.  For Peter, this manifests as claustrophobia and he cannot stand to be inside for long which adds an interesting twist to things.  Most of this book happens outside so it didn’t come up quite as much in this installment but there were a few scenes where it did come up.

The mystery in this book was interesting and fairly complex.  I can tell you that I had no idea how things would work out.  There were some people that I didn’t trust as much as others but I had no idea how they might be involved.  This was a multiple layered mystery and as soon as one puzzle was closer to being solved another would begin.  The legal cannabis industry was a big part of the story which thought provoking. It was really nice to read such an original and unique story.

I enjoyed seeing a couple of characters from previous books play a role in this story.  Lewis has been around since the first book and he is back for some action again in this story.  I really enjoy seeing Lewis and Peter work together and think that they make a really great team.  June played a big role in the last book and plays a key role once again.  I really liked seeing the development in their relationship in this installment.  There were some new characters in this book as well.  The chapters that were from told from the point of view of the culprits were my least favorite parts of the book simply because I didn’t enjoy spending time in their heads.

I would recommend this book to others.  This is a great installment to an exciting and action packed series.  Once I got started reading, I didn’t want to set the book aside because I had to know how Peter would save the day.  I can’t wait to read more from Nick Petrie!

I received an advance reader edition of this book from Penguin Group – Putnam G.P. Putnam’s Sons via NetGalley.

About the Author

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Nick Petrie received his MFA in fiction from the University of Washington, won a Hopwood Award for short fiction while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and his story “At the Laundromat” won the 2006 Short Story Contest in the The Seattle Review, a national literary journal. A husband and father, he runs a home-inspection business in Milwaukee. His previous novels in the Peter Ash series are The Drifter and Burning Bright.

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