LIGHT IT UP (Peter Ash #3) (audiobook) by Nick Petrie
Synopsis:
The third entry in the Peter Ash series begins with Peter Ash working on a team rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon and writing long heartfelt letters back to his love interest from the second book.
He makes friends with an older man named Henry (a Vietnam vet, as opposed to Ash being a vet of Iran and Afghanistan.) Henry gets a call from his daughter in Colorado and asks for Henry's help with her business that provides security for some of the legal marijuana businesses.
Turns out that these businesses have to operate completely in cash because marijuana is still illegal so far as the federal government is concerned so banks cannot take credit cards, debit cards or even deposits because it would be considered helping to traffic drugs. This means that there are shipments of pot and shipments of cash coming and going and that can attract bad guys.
An entire security crew has disappeared with the money. Some assume that the security team was attacked and killed or maybe even captured. Others think they ran off with the money.
Peter and Henry's crew take the next big run and they find out soon enough what happened to the other crew...
He makes friends with an older man named Henry (a Vietnam vet, as opposed to Ash being a vet of Iran and Afghanistan.) Henry gets a call from his daughter in Colorado and asks for Henry's help with her business that provides security for some of the legal marijuana businesses.
Turns out that these businesses have to operate completely in cash because marijuana is still illegal so far as the federal government is concerned so banks cannot take credit cards, debit cards or even deposits because it would be considered helping to traffic drugs. This means that there are shipments of pot and shipments of cash coming and going and that can attract bad guys.
An entire security crew has disappeared with the money. Some assume that the security team was attacked and killed or maybe even captured. Others think they ran off with the money.
Peter and Henry's crew take the next big run and they find out soon enough what happened to the other crew...
My Review:
The action and the adventure were good in this book, but there was a deeper theme in the book about the kind of men that serve in the military. I thought it added a bit of literary dimension that is, frankly, almost never present in these sort of "shoot 'em up" books.
Ash is a traditional principled good guy - a Clark Kent/Luke Skywalker type. A man who joined the military because he saw a need and wanted to help. He meets up with his opposite in this book - a man who joined the military because he could take advantage of the trust given to him to hurt people and satisfy his urges. In the middle, there is a man who served honorably until an arbitrary rule forced him to sell his honor in order to save his family from shame.
I rate this audiobook 4 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: LIGHT IT UP (Peter Ash #3) (audiobook) by Nick Petrie.
The action and the adventure were good in this book, but there was a deeper theme in the book about the kind of men that serve in the military. I thought it added a bit of literary dimension that is, frankly, almost never present in these sort of "shoot 'em up" books.
Ash is a traditional principled good guy - a Clark Kent/Luke Skywalker type. A man who joined the military because he saw a need and wanted to help. He meets up with his opposite in this book - a man who joined the military because he could take advantage of the trust given to him to hurt people and satisfy his urges. In the middle, there is a man who served honorably until an arbitrary rule forced him to sell his honor in order to save his family from shame.
I rate this audiobook 4 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: LIGHT IT UP (Peter Ash #3) (audiobook) by Nick Petrie.
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