Dewey Andreas Series by Ben Coes

Dewey Andreas #4

When assassins kill the person he loves most in the world, Dewey Andreas will risk everything and fight anyone, no matter the cost, for revengeDewey Andreas has been instrumental in stopping a series of deadly terrorist attacks, which hasn't gone unnoticed in the darkened corners around the world. But when Dewey helps uncover Chinese intelligence's highest level asset in Israel's Mossad, he makes himself too much of a danger to ignore. Fao Bhang, head of China's state security, puts an immediate kill order on Andreas. Dewey is tracked to Argentina, where he went with his girlfriend Jessica Tanzer, U.S. National Security Advisor, to witness the signing of a treaty ending Iran's nuclear program. After surviving an attack from an old nemesis, Andreas faces a Chinese kill-team that fails to take him out - but the collateral damage is both horrifying and personal. Never one to turn the other cheek, Andreas starts his revenge by taking out two top deputies to Fao Bhang. Bhang, facing potentially fatal internal opposition due to the diplomatic disaster in Argentina, tries to keep the situation from spiraling out of control. Using the leverage of America's debt to China, Bhang pressures the U.S. not to respond and to repudiate Andreas. Cut loose and now rogue, Andreas faces the full weight and might of Chinese intelligence. Andreas, on the other hand, is determined to bring swift and terrible justice to Fao Bhang - no matter the odds or the armies that he will have to fight his way through.

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Published: 2013

Dewey Andreas #5

Independence Day: A Dewey Andreas Novel

Ben Coes

Dewey Andreas, former Delta and newly recruited intelligence agent, is sidelined after screwing up his last two operations. Still drowning in grief after the tragic murder of his fiancé, Dewey has seemingly lost his focus, his edge, and the confidence of his superiors. A high level Russian hacker, known only as Cloud, is believed to be routing large amounts of money to various Al Qaeda terror cells, and the mission is to capture and render harmless Cloud. At the same time, a back-up team is sent after the only known associate of Cloud, a ballerina believed to be his girlfriend. Unwilling to sit out the mission as ordered, Dewey defies his superiors, and goes rogue, surreptitiously following and tracking the two teams. What should be a pair of simple snatch and grab operations, goes horribly wrong--both teams are ambushed and wiped out. Only through the unexpected intervention of Dewey does the ballerina survive. On the run, with no back-up, Cloud's girlfriend reveals a shocking secret--a plot so audacious and deadly that their masterminds behind it would risk anything and kill anybody to prevent its exposure. It's a plot that, in less than three days, will completely remake the world's political landscape and put at risk every single person in the Western world. With only three days left, Dewey Andreas must unravel and stop this plot or see everything destroyed. A plot that goes live on July 4th--Independence Day.**

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Published: 2014

Dewey Andreas #6

First Strike: A Thriller

Ben Coes

Deep within the Pentagon, a covert, multi-billion arms-for-influence program was created. The objective was to protect the United States and its allies from terrorist acts by secretly enabling a hand-picked man to emerge as the most powerful leader in the Middle East. But the charismatic Tristan Nazir double-crosses America, twisting the program for his own violent ends to create ISIS. Now America is at great risk. Elite operative Dewey Andreas is sent to Syria to retrieve details about the source of ISIS’s funding but his cover is blown mid-operation and chaos erupts in the streets of Damascus. Trapped and outnumbered, Dewey manages to send proof of the awful truth—unknown at even the highest levels in the government—that ISIS’s munitions were indeed provided by America itself. This information arrives in time to for the U.S. to cut off a final arms shipment before it reaches ISIS. But the vicious Nazir, is far from finished. He launches a bold strike into the heart of America, sending a terrorist cell to take over a dorm at Columbia University, capturing hundreds of college students as hostages. For every hour that the shipment of weapons is withheld, the terrorists will publicly execute one student. The potential loss of life is intolerable. A frontal assault is impossible. Releasing the shipment is unthinkable. There is nowhere to turn… In a situation with no solutions, there remains only one option—Dewey Andreas. **Review Praise for the thrilling novels by Ben Coes: “Ben Coes has created a hero who ranks with the protagonists in a Vince Flynn or Brad Thor thriller… The Last Refuge is a winner and will keep readers turning the pages.” ―Associated Press “Terrific! A gripping story, compelling characters, a relentless pace, and nerve-wracking suspense.” ―Vince Flynn on Power Down “Compelling characters, a wealth of technical detail, and ticking-clock suspense make [Independence Day] one of the year’s best thrillers.” ―Publishers Weekly (starred review) “High concept meets high octane…Envision Clancy, Forsyth, and le Carre all writing in their prime…then kick in the booster…Coes blows the competition away.” ―Brad Thor on *Coup d’Etat * “Coes is in the same league as Brad Thor and Vince Flynn, and this high-octane race against time will have plot-driven thriller readers unable to turn the pages fast enough.” ―Booklist (starred review) on Independence Day “Action, international intrigue, romance―it doesn’t get any better.” ―San Jose Mercury News on The Last Refuge About the Author BEN COES is the New York Times best-selling author ofinternational political and espionage thrillers that include Power Down, Coup D'Etat, The Last Refuge, Eye For An Eye and Independence Day. His next book, which comes out in June 2016, is First Strike. Ben worked at the White House under President Ronald Reagan and was a White House appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Gulf War. He was a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School ofGovernment. He is a partner at The Mustang Group, a Boston alternativeinvestment firm. He graduated from Columbia College, where he won theBennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction.

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Published: 2016

Dewey Andreas #7

Trap the Devil

Ben Coes

"Intense and gripping...Coes' name should be on the lips of every reader who enjoys Vince Flynn and the Brads (Taylor and Thor)." —Booklist (starred review) on Trap the Devil Only one man stands between a powerful cabal planning an invisible coup of the U.S. government and their brutal goals—Dewey Andreas. A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector, has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They’ve begun to remove the people who stand in their way—and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets. They’ve already taken out the Speaker of the House—whose death was made to look like an accidental drowning—and the president and vice president are next. Once they have their own people in place, they plan to start a bloody, brutal war on an unimaginable scale. On restricted duty while he recovers from injuries incurred on a previous mission, Dewey Andreas is sent to Paris by CIA Director Hector Calibrisi. The Secretary of State is going there for secret talks, and Dewey is to be an extra layer of security above the State Department team. But what should be an easy mission couldn’t go more wrong. The cabal has sent in a hit man to take out the Secretary of State and lay the blame for this murder at the feet of Dewey himself. With the Secretary of State dead, shot by Dewey’s weapon, Dewey is on the run and out in the cold, desperately trying to unravel the plot before the conspirators succeed in killing millions of innocents. **Review "An intriguing interlacing of narratives emerges as past and present enemies come together against Dewey and his team." ―Kirkus Reviews “While the nonstop action is the main course here, the complex, thought-provoking plot and character development prove to be the cherry on top to Coes’ relentless, adrenaline-pumping thriller… Trap the Devil elevates Ben Coes to the very top of the thriller genre, where he sits alongside the likes of Brad Thor, Daniel Silva, and the late Vince Flynn.” ―The REAL Book Spy **"Outstanding!...The pages fly, and the surprises are numerous. Coes is one of those few authors who knows how to turn the world of black ops into compelling, realistic fiction, and he’s getting better and better." ―Booklist (starred review) on First Strike* "Independence Day may well be the best installment of the series to date... There’s enough action, explosions, fatalities and (best of all) intelligence nuggets to fill a summer’s equivalent of books.... Strongly recommended, from first page to last." ―Bookreporter "Coes is in the same league as Brad Thor and Vince Flynn, and this high-octane race against time will have plot-driven thriller readers unable to turn the pages fast enough."―Booklist (starred review) on Independence Day* "Ben Coes has created a hero who ranks with the protagonists in a Vince Flynn or Brad Thor thriller... The Last Refuge is a winner and will keep readers turning the pages." ―The Associated Press "My favorite novel in at least a decade. The writing was inherently masculine, brilliantly crafted." ―Huffington Post on The Last Refuge About the Author BEN COES is the author of the critically acclaimed Power Down and Coup d’Etat. He is a former speechwriter for the George H .W. Bush White House, worked for Boone Pickens, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, a campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s run for governor in 2002, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. He lives in Wellesley, Mass.

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Published: 2017