Bloody Sunday: A Thriller

by Ben Coes

Overview

THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD COMES DOWN TO TWENTY-FOUR HOURS…AND ONE MAN.

Dewey Andreas tried to quit. America’s top special forces operative, he has had enough. But after the President himself asks, Dewey agrees to do one last mission. That’s when it all goes wrong.

North Korea’s dictator is a madman. Long a danger to the rest of the world, he is about to implement his long-held, terrible dreams of revenge. To get the missiles he needs to launch a nuclear attack against the United States, he’s trading nuclear triggers with Iran and is sending his top military man to negotiate the trade.

Dewey Andreas is sent to Macau to carry out a bold operation against the North Korean general. But one small slip changes everything. Now Dewey has to do the impossible: in only twenty-four hours, with no room for error, he must find a way to infiltrate North Korea and stop a nuclear attack that will kill millions and devastate two countries.

“His boldest, most daring thriller yet.”—The Real Book Spy


“A propulsive read…fans of Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, and Tom Clancy will tear through Bloody Sunday.”—Mark Greaney

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250140777
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/30/2019
Series:	Dewey Andreas Series , #8
Pages:	512
Sales rank:	154,152
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.40(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

★ 05/07/2018
A simple premise drives bestseller Coes’s excellent eighth thriller featuring indomitable CIA agent Dewey Andreas (after 2017’s Trap the Devil): North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is dying of cancer. With less than a month to live, Jong-un decides to go out in a blaze of nuclear glory and take two American cities with him. All he needs is a couple of long-range missiles, and it so happens that his ally Iran is happy to supply them. Dewey has personal reasons for wanting to quit the spy business, but U.S. president J.P. Dellenbaugh talks him into staying on and dealing with the North Korean threat. CIA newcomer Jenna Hartford, on loan from MI6, has designed a mission to poison Gen. Pak Yong-sik, head of the North Korean armed forces, and force him to divulge Korean secrets in exchange for an antidote for the poison. It’s a complicated mission, and in the end only Dewey has the skills, courage, and sheer badass tenacity to pull it off. A ticking clock ratchets up the tension in the best entry in the series so far. Agent: Nicole James, Chalberg & Sussman. (July)

Publishers Weekly

"If you’re not exhausted by the time you reach the last page, you weren’t paying attention. There is enough action and casualties in Bloody Sunday for multiple thrillers... Masterful!" —Bookreporter

"Excellent...the best entry in the series so far." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Readers will have a tough time putting this one down." —Library Journal

"Coes has written another outstanding black-ops thriller that holds readers with believable characters, a charismatic lead, and compelling narrative drive." —Booklist

"His boldest, most daring thriller yet." —The Real Book Spy

"Wildly entertaining... Coes takes a terrifyingly plausible scenario — an Iran-North Korea deal that puts the U.S. in the crosshairs — and ratchets up the suspense with a countdown to annihilation. Dewey Andreas is the hero these times demand, and Bloody Sunday is a heart-stopping thrill ride." —Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Suspicion and The Switch

From the Publisher

Ari Fliakos narrates the eighth book in the Dewey Andreas series. In a tensely plausible thriller, North Korea and Iran negotiate an exchange of technology that will elevate both countries to nuclear powers and allow North Korea to attack the U.S. After the events of previous books, Andreas is attempting to retire but finds himself drawn into a plan to prevent the exchange that goes horribly awry. Fliakos interjects tension and drama, perfectly conveying Andreas's race against the clock to get into North Korea to save the day. Fliakos masterfully voices Andreas with a simmering anger while adding striking accents and thoughtful portrayals of secondary characters. The narration raises an excellent thriller to a must-listen, even for those new to the series. J.M.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphone Award © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

AUGUST 2018 - AudioFile