Independence Day: A Dewey Andreas Novel

by Ben Coes

Overview

“Coes blows the competition away”—Brad Thor
Cloud, the code name a high-level Russian hacker, has acquired a nuclear weapon. It’s an older bomb from the USSR’s Cold War arsenal with the power to devastate a major city. Fueled by a dark and personal vendetta, Cloud has put it onto an anonymous trawler, piloted by jihadists, headed straight to America.
“Explosive from beginning to end.”—Bookreporter
Dewey Andreas, a former Delta working as an agent for the CIA, is still grieving the murder of his fiancée. He’s lost his focus, his edge—and the confidence of his superiors. But when an overseas mission to capture Cloud goes awry, Dewey becomes America’s last hope of putting a stop to the bomb. Now it’s up to Dewey to put his past behind him and risk everything to find one of the world’s most elusive enemies…or witness a terrorist attack timed to coincide with the country’s biggest holiday: Independence Day.
“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)

This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250043191
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Series:	Dewey Andreas Series , #5
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	560
Sales rank:	212,901
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

BEN COES is the author of the critically acclaimed Power Down, Coup d'Etat, The Last Refuge, and Eye for an Eye. He is a former speechwriter for the George H .W. Bush White House, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

My favorite novel in at least a decade. The writing was inherently masculine, brilliantly crafted.” —Huffington Post

“Action, international intrigue, romance—it doesn't get any better.” —San Jose Mercury News on The Last Refuge

“Another winner from a writer who is a rising star among the ranks of the literary world's most successful authors of the international thriller.” —The Nashua Telegraph

“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

“Envision Clancy, Forsyth, and le Carre all writing in their prime . . . then kick in the boosters.” —Brad Thor

From the Publisher

★ 03/30/2015
Compelling characters, a wealth of technical detail, and ticking-clock suspense make bestseller Coes’s fifth Dewey Andreas novel (after 2013’s Eye for an Eye) one of the year’s best thrillers. CIA director Hector Calibrisi draws the ex-Delta operative turned CIA agent back into action from Dewey’s hometown of Castine, Maine, where he retreated after the death of his fiancée six months earlier. Dewey winds up searching for a genius Russian computer hacker, Pyotr Vargarin (aka Cloud), who’s acquired a nuclear weapon and is bent on wreaking revenge for earlier ill treatment at American hands. Cloud has hacked his way into the CIA computer system and is always one step ahead as bodies pile up and Dewey goes off the grid to save the U.S. The attack is scheduled for the Fourth of July, which gives Dewey and his comrades only a few days to stop Cloud. Last-minute twists ratchet up the tension as the book races to the final confrontation. 100,000-copy first printing. Agent: Nicole James, Chalberg & Sussman. (May)

Publishers Weekly

08/01/2015
A heartrending prolog sets the stage for a 30-year plot to avenge the betrayal and death of the antagonist's parents by an American agent. Cloud, a hit man for the Russian mafia and a brilliant hacker, is focused on taking down the country that promised his father asylum in exchange for a highly advanced weapon and then murdered him. The fifth series entry (after An Eye for an Eye) has Dewey under attack from a political aspirant who is determined to show that NOC (nonofficial covers without diplomatic immunity) agents like Dewey are a national security risk. As our hero fends off his rivals, he is also tasked with locating the nuclear bomb Cloud has stolen. VERDICT The action is nail-bitingly intense as Dewey and his team try to identify the U.S. city scheduled for destruction and stop delivery of the bomb before a national tragedy occurs. With the clock ticking, readers are taken on a suspenseful race to numerous locations and situations. Coes's latest is certain to appeal to his fan base and attract new aficionados. [See Prepub Alert, 1/6/14.]

Library Journal

2015-04-22
Elite operative Dewey Andreas returns to protect America from nuclear annihilation. In Coes' (Eye for an Eye, 2013, etc.) last novel, Dewey was dealing with the death of his true love by dishing out a hearty helping of remorseless violence on his path to vengeance. At the beginning of this new adventure, we find Dewey hiding out from the world in his childhood home, the quaint fishing village of Castine, Maine. Dewey, however, cannot escape his former life as an elite Delta operator and the classified missions from his days in the CIA as a nonofficial cover agent. When Dewey's friend and former boss, CIA Director Hector Calibrisi, finds him, Dewey is reluctantly brought back into the fold of covert operations. While his first mission is a relatively simple assault of a drug operation in Mexico, a much larger threat looms on the horizon. A mysterious, but legendary, computer hacker known only as Cloud acquired a black-market nuclear bomb from a Russian Mafia kingpin and, with the help of Chechen jihadis, is planning a terrorist attack on America's birthday, the Fourth of July. To prevent this atrocity, Dewey must regain his stone-cold composure and his unique talent of accomplishing the mission at all costs. Along the way, a degree of insight into the current sociopolitical dynamic between Russia and the U.S., and inside the American political landscape, gives this action-packed thriller a sense of realism. A realistic and entertaining page turner.

Kirkus Reviews