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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.
About the Author
Ben Coes is the New York Times bestselling author of international political and espionage thrillers that include Power Down, Coup d'État, The Last Refuge, Eye for an Eye, Independence Day, and First Strike.
Ben's 7th book - Trap the Devil - comes out in June, 2017.
Ben's books all center on Dewey Andreas, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier who was kicked out of the military after being falsely accused of crimes he did not commit. He leaves the country he loves and works for nearly a decade as a roughneck on a series of offshore oil rigs all over the world. When one of the oil rigs is the target of a broader terror attack on America, Dewey must reconcile with a government that betrayed him in order to stop the terrorists. While fiction, all of Ben's books are based on current events.
Ben began writing after a career in politics and finance. His first job was at the White House under President Ronald Reagan. Ben was a White House appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Gulf War. Ben worked for Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, California Governor Pete Wilson, and was campaign manager for Mitt Romney's successful run for Massachusetts Governor. Ben was also a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Ben has been a partner at two private equity firms, participating in a wide range of investing activity in more than two dozen companies across a variety of industries.
Ben graduated from Columbia College, where he won the Bennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction. He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts with his wife and four children.
