Nick Petrie

Monday, November 9 at 6PM

Anoka County Library – Northtown

711 County Hwy 10 NE, Blaine

In-Person Event

Nick Petrie is the USA Today bestselling author behind the Peter Ash action thriller series. Petrie’s hero draws frequent and favorable comparisons to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher and Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, but his backstory makes him one of a kind. Ash is a Marine Corps veteran whose reintegration into civilian life is complicated by a debilitating case of post-traumatic stress disorder. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews recommended Petrie’s debut novel, The Drifter (2016), as “a powerful, empathetic, and entertaining tale about the plight many combat veterans face when they come home from Iraq and Afghanistan.” The Drifter won Petrie both the Barry Award and ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel. The Dark Time, the ninth installment in the series, hit shelves in March 2026. In this most recent adventure, Ash must protect an independent investigative reporter whose journalism is about to unleash public scrutiny on an extremist survivalist cult. Midwest Book Review calls The Dark Time “an original and deftly crafted military thriller… the stuff of which blockbuster action/adventure movies are made.”