The Price You Pay (A Peter Ash Novel #8) (Hardcover)
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 8 in the A Peter Ash Novel series.
- #1: The Drifter (A Peter Ash Novel) (Paperback): $9.99
- #2: Burning Bright (A Peter Ash Novel #2) (Paperback): $9.99
- #3: Light It Up (A Peter Ash Novel #3) (Paperback): $9.99
- #4: Tear It Down (A Peter Ash Novel #4) (Paperback): $9.99
- #5: The Wild One (A Peter Ash Novel #5) (Paperback): $17.00
- #6: The Breaker (A Peter Ash Novel #6) (Paperback): $9.99
- #7: The Runaway (A Peter Ash Novel #7) (Paperback): $9.99
Staff Reviews
I’m guessing when Nick Petrie talks to fans, a lot of them want to know when we’re going to read more about Lewis’s backstory. Well, here it is! Lewis’s former buddy Teddy has been living in the Northwoods, trying to achieve a normal life. But wouldn’t you know it, his therapist-lover blabs to another guy she’s sleeping with, and wouldn’t you know it, he has ties to a crime syndicate that knows that Teddy’s stories of the Ghost Killers, who are so legendary that there’s a quarter-million-dollar bounty on bringing the gang in alive. The Ghost Killers do indeed kill, but they have a code not unlike Dexter, the serial killer of serial killers – only the extreme baddies, only when necessary. This endangers the life not just of Lewis and the gang, but everyone they love, and that includes Peter Ash and June, once they decide to help out, which of course they do. This is one of the more brutal entries in the series, and though I consider myself to have a delicate stomach for these sorts of things, I couldn’t stop reading!
— Daniel Goldin
Here’s something I love: a good, thriller-y crime novel with the speed, the swagger, and the vibes of a 90s action flick. Petrie does it right! The setup: reluctant solver-of-problems-that-no-one-else-can-solve Peter Ash and his best bud and (often literal but sometimes just metaphorical) partner in crime Lewis are trying to hunker down all quiet and warm with their families in their cozy Milwaukee neighborhood during a freezing Midwestern February. But when a crime syndicate threatens to air out Lewis’s dirty laundry from his ‘bad old days’ as the ringleader of the country’s former foremost crew of murderers-of-murderers, well, plans change. Houses explode. Computers are hacked. Doors are kicked in. The bullets (and knockout darts!) fly. Along the way, our heroes have to ask themselves some tough questions – does their moral code really make them different from the baddies they’re chasing? Can doing bad things for good reasons ever really be right, or are we perhaps just grasping for rationalizations? Here’s one thing that’s sure: Petrie’s books are best when he writes his heroes into lousy weather. There’s just something about that classic man vs the elements vs teams of hired killers story that Petrie has perfected. This one’s a high-tension page turner where the fists are flying fast as the ice and snow.
— Chris LeeDescription
Peter Ash must follow his closest friend, Lewis, into the criminal underworld when secrets from the past threaten everything they hold dear in this propulsive new thriller from the bestselling and award-winning series.
Lewis has helped Peter Ash out of more trouble than Peter cares to remember. So he doesn’t hesitate when Lewis asks a favor in return. Lewis has left his criminal past behind, but a former associate may be in trouble, and he and Peter must drive into the teeth of a blizzard to find him. When they discover blood in the snow and a smoldering cabin, both men know things are bad. Then they learn that someone has stolen notebooks full of incriminating secrets about Lewis's long-ago crimes, and realize the situation is much worse than they'd thought.
To save Lewis’s wife, Dinah, and her two boys, Lewis and Peter must find the notebooks. With Peter's longtime girlfriend, June Cassidy, they begin the search—facing ruthless and violent foes at each turn, including one powerful person who will stop at nothing for revenge. Will Peter and Lewis be able to keep that dark past buried? Or will they need to step into the darkness to save the people they love most?
About the Author
Nick Petrie is the author of eight novels in the Peter Ash series, most recently The Runaway. His debut, The Drifter, won both the ITW Thriller award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel, and was a finalist for the Edgar and the Hammett Awards. A husband and father, he lives in the Milwaukee area.
Praise For…
“Petrie shows off his action-writing chops with a series of vivid, remarkably clear firefights and, in between, pauses to recover.” —Booklist
“The eighth danger-dripping crime thriller featuring Peter Ash… Action junkies will love this one.” —Kirkus Reviews
Praise for the Peter Ash series
“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Peter Ash is the real deal.” —Lee Child
“The hype about Nick Petrie is real—he’s just that damn good!” —Mark Greaney
“Nonstop action at a machine gun pace.”—C.J. Box
"Peter Ash is one of the most complexcharacters I’ve come across in a long time.” —David Baldacci
“If you’re not already on the Peter Ash train, jump aboard now. Nick Petrie is doing headliner work.” —Robert Crais
“For me, no crime-fiction character has ever measured up to Jack Reacher—until, that is, I met Peter Ash.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Petrie excels at propulsive pacing whilekeeping his characters compelling, daring, and,best of all, morally courageous.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Nick Petrie proves himself to be a maestro, wielding his keyboard with all the deftness of a master conductor’s baton.” —Providence Journal