First Strike, Ben Coes
First Strike, Ben Coes
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First Strike
A Thriller

Author: Ben Coes

Narrator: Peter Hermann

Unabridged: 14 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016


Synopsis

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 Ben Coes

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa

Update 9/24/2019: I don't have much to add that I didn't say below. I listened to the book on Audible and the narrator did a fantastic job. I felt more fear, anxiety and tension than I did when I read the book the first time. I also loved how he changed his voice for Dewey's internal monologue. I sti......more

Goodreads review by Ryan

Read this review and more at www.TheRealBookSpy.com What if America accidentally created her biggest enemy? That question is the basis for Ben Coes’ latest Dewey Andreas novel, titled First Strike. Through a series of flashbacks, Coes takes the reader behind the scenes of two secret meetings. One tak......more

I’ve noted before that the entire genre of military-based, anti-terrorism novels…those novels “ripped from today’s headlines”…has grown very tiresome for me. It just seems like they are mostly all the same. As a result, I have limited my reading of them to only a handful of authors today (and some o......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui

I'm a long-time Ben Coes fan. I've read every book in the Dewey Andreas series--loved every one of them. He always includes some sort of military-terrorist-weapon detail that rings true even when I know nothing about the topic. Here's how he describes a shipment of illicit weapons being shipped to t......more


Quotes

"Coes’ muscular, get-to-the-point prose is perfectly matched by Hermann’s deep, muscular narration." Booklist