Books by Ben Coes and Complete Book Reviews
Ben Coes, St. Martin's, $24.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-58074-2
Coes pumps new heat, blood, and flat-out action into a well-worn premise—terrorists are out to break America by attacking its energy resources—in his frighteningly plausible thriller debut. One target is Capitana, an American oil rig located in the...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin's, $25.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-58076-6
Coes's exciting sequel to Power Down explores an all-too-plausible conflict in Asia. A radical cleric, in one of his first actions as Pakistan's new president, drops a nuclear bomb on India, its giant neighbor and rival. American leaders fear a...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-00716-2
Coes’s heart-pounding fourth Dewey Andreas thriller (after 2012’s The Last Refuge) finds the ex–Delta Force member still fighting the world’s baddest bad guys and coming away bloodied but on top. Fao Bhang, China’s minister of state security,...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (512p) ISBN 978-1-250-04316-0
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...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-250-04317-7
Bestseller Coes piles disaster on top of disaster in his melodramatic sixth thriller featuring CIA operative Dewey Andreas (after 2015’s Independence Day). Several years in the past, Mark Raditz, the deputy U.S. secretary of defense, decided to...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-04318-4
In the exciting seventh Dewey Andreas thriller (after 2016’s First Strike), bestseller Coes pumps new energy into a familiar plot: a secret cabal lies hidden within the upper reaches of the U.S. government. In 1981, CIA director William Casey...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-14076-0
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...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-14079-1
This nifty thriller from bestseller Coes (Bloody Sunday) introduces private operative Rod Tacoma, a former Navy SEAL and friend of the author’s series hero, Dewey Andreas, who makes a cameo appearance. A faction of the Russian mob carries out two...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-14082-1
In bestseller Coes’s far-fetched and overstuffed ninth Dewey Andreas thriller (after 2018’s Bloody Sunday), Iranian Zakaria Mansour, the “commander general of Hezbollah,” has an ambitious plan: to assassinate the U.S. president during a speech at...
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Ben Coes, read by Peter Hermann. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2568-9
In Coes's latest thriller, Israeli special forces commander Kohl Meir is kidnapped in New York City and transported to an Iranian prison. The kidnapping is all part of an Iranian plan to deploy a nuclear weapon in Tel Aviv. And when the politically...
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Ben Coes. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-00715-5
Readers fond of unrealistic bravado and female intelligence operatives with outstanding physical assets will best appreciate Coes’s third Dewey Andreas novel (after 2011’s Coup d’Etat). The events of the previous book, in which former Delta Force...
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