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The violent terrorist group ISIS has launched amajor military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more andmore public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up.However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has amajor card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of armsunderway. Dewey Andreas is sent into the field to meet Mallory,the Milan CIA station chief who has explosive proof about the source ofthe terrorists group's original funding. While ISIS operatives take outboth Mallory and his source, Dewey escapes with the proof -- the group'soriginal munitions were provided by a black-ops program from deep within the Pentagon itself. The program unravels in time for the armsshipment to be stopped before it reaches its destination. But Isoldaisn't finished. He launches a bold strike into the heart of America,sending a team to take over a dorm at Columbia University, capturingnearly 500 college students as hostages. Among those hostages is CIADirector Hector Calibrisi's daughter, Daisy. For every hour that theshipment of weapons is delayed, the radicals will publicly execute onestudent. A frontal assault will result in untold number of deadstudents. Sending the shipment will give Isolda and his followers themeans to capture Syria and its resources, creating a terrorist runnation. 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.