I got to the description of the Iranian trial, and it was so ridiculously described, that it was like an insult to the reader. Ben Coes has a long way to go, in order to resemble th What a junk story. Ben Coes has a long way to go, in order to resemble the deceased Vince Flynn. May 08, Giovanni Gelati rated it it was amazing. I have read all three in this series and they just keep getting better and better. To say I am looking forward to the next story is an understatement.
Jan 03, Richard T. Dewey Andreas is a one-man army. In this book Dewey must outwit the Iranian government, foil an attack on Israel and free a friend from an impenetrable prison.
Great read with plenty of action! Feb 29, Joe Valenti rated it it was amazing. So, so, so incredibly good!! This was one of those books that makes we look forward to the next free moment I have so that I can open it back up.
I'm really starting to like Dewey and appreciate the depth if character that is occurring in the supporting players. Awesome plot - flew through this one!! Formulaic, but it's good formula. Coes does the cliffhanger, to be continued thing which I don't think is necessary because I'm going to continue this series anyway. He usually resolves early in the following book so okay. May 04, Rolando rated it it was amazing.
This is becoming one of my all time favorite series, so excited that i can continue non stop to the next one! Mar 22, Ashima Jain rated it it was amazing. I am on a Dewey Andreas binge and can't seem to get enough of him. I particularly love how the author has linked the characters and events between books into one continuing story. Excellent A really great read. Mr Coes you are a truly a gifted storyteller. The characters are well developed, you feel as If you are part of the story.
A well paced story. Jun 29, Jerome rated it really liked it. Iranian agents have kidnapped an Israeli commando Kohl Meir and transported him back to Tehran, where he is being held and tortured in the notorious Evin Prison while awaiting a show trial for murder.
Dewey owes his life to Meir's bravery, and he feels honor-bound to attempt to rescue him from almost certain execution at the hands of the Iranians. The story unfolds at a brisk pace, as the Iranians have just achieved their goal of building a nuclear weapon and the regime wants to unleash it on I Iranian agents have kidnapped an Israeli commando Kohl Meir and transported him back to Tehran, where he is being held and tortured in the notorious Evin Prison while awaiting a show trial for murder.
The story unfolds at a brisk pace, as the Iranians have just achieved their goal of building a nuclear weapon and the regime wants to unleash it on Israel as quickly as possible. Moreover, although Andreas knows about the existence of the Iranians' new weapon, the suspected presence of a mole within the highest ranks of the Israeli government forces him to largely keep that knowledge to himself.
Thus, as he maps out an operation to free Meir and thwart the Iranians' plan to strike a nuclear blow against Israel, Andreas is forced to work outside America's traditional covert ops framework, relying on his own cunning and logistical support from a pair of patriotic private contractors.
Coes demonstrates a gift for descriptive writing to paint vivid scenes that serve as a great backdrop for the story. Andreas is a fearsome and determined protagonist who conceives creative, out-of-the-box solutions to the problems he encounters, which helps keep the plot twisting in unexpected directions at times. However, some of the violence is so awkward it's almost funny. At one point, Andreas jumps off a hotel balcony, twists in mid-air, and shoots well enough to hit a target on the balcony he just fled, at night, before splashing down in the hotel pool.
Yeah, right. What action there is found in the last 60 pages and it is rather lackluster at best. Coes once again uses his favorite cuss word to the exclusion of any other swear words and once again the Arabs use it more than the Americans.
Coes seems fond of the crossing of the arms over the chest with two pistols and blazing away. I would like to point out that you can't aim this way and the shooter will get hot shell casing in his face from the pistols ejecting shells to the right. This leads me to point out several other mistakes. Ocne, in the book Dewey is said to be driving a Ford Tahoe. Wrong Tahoe is a Chevy, In the first part of the book the killer has a Beretta 93 and on the next page she lowers the.
Wrong, the 93 or 93R are 9mm only. I have a problem with the elevator scene. I know I am to suspend belief when reading this type of novel but there are limits. Here we go: there is this elevator and the bad guy and his 5 body guards get into it along with one woman and her "boy friend.
The boyfriend pulls TWO pistols with silencers out from his jacket and once again crosses his arms and shoot 4 of the body guards while the woman pulls her. All the while no bullets go through the body guards and strike the steel walls of the elevator and ricochet hitting the woman or the boyfriend. Would anyone like to try this and see if it is possible? May 17, Anjana rated it really liked it.
I read this book so fast! Like fast even for me and everyone who knows me would tell you that I read insanely fast. It was that good. I haven't read thrillers in a long time but when I was offered a review copy of this book, some quick googling was all it took for me to give it a shot because Ben Coes' books seem to have raving reviews everywhere..
I haven't read the first two so I wasn't sure if I'd be able t I read this book so fast! I haven't read the first two so I wasn't sure if I'd be able to catch up to the series at first. I was glued from freaking page one. I don't think I've read any thrillers at least not anytime recent that pits a country against another. Secretary of State and Hector Calibrisi who's the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency or to put it cooler, the CIA and they're are all essential characters to the plot in one way or another.
They spend the evening discussing a proposal for Allaire to sit down and have a friendly talk with the President of Iran, a country known for it's terrorism. However, call it bad luck or something else, that evening ends in a disaster when the President has a stroke that makes him brain dead and things only get worse from there when Kohl Meir is captured by the Iranians and taken back to Iran where he's held hostage.
That's when the story actually begins. Ben Coes' writing is simple, straight forward and I loved it! I think it's what made it so incredibly easy for me to understand what was going on and get into the plot.
Coes is probably the only author I know who manages to write movie worthy action scenes that literally paints the image for me. The Last Refuge is thrilling, action-packed and totally made of awesome. Jason Bourne fans will eat this up, just for the fast pace of the book.
I'll definitely be buying the first two novels of this series! Jun 09, Jennifer Lane rated it really liked it Shelves: men-in-uniform , for-review. Iran Has a Nuclear Bomb! The plot is intricate, plausible, and gripping.
This is my first read by author Ben Coe but it won't be my last. Dewey is the whole package--hard, intelligent, and competent. Kohl, the grandson of Golda Meir, helped saved Dewey's life once. Now, Kohl's the one with his life on the chopping block, and only Dewey to save him. Iranians kidnap Kohl in the US and secret him away to an Iranian prison, where they torture him with methods that will make your skin crawl.
It's the only thing they're good at. Then he describes the Iranian president's maniacal smile that crept like a small garter snake across his lips and my concern increased great description, though! But I liked how the author then makes a point that there are good men and women in every country despite the malfeasance of their leaders. Dewey Andreas is so confident that he views any threat as a fun challenge.
Upon learning that a needed weapons dealer is the same man who almost got him killed, Dewey actually grins. You can almost hear him say, "Bring it on. The pressure's on! Dewey also has a keen sense of humor. I love what he writes to replace "Goodbye, Tel Aviv" on the bomb.
I was invested in Kohl's future but Dewey wasn't as easy to connect with for me. I'm in awe of the painstaking research this novel must have taken.
Fans of political thrillers will love this taut, suspenseful story! I received an ARC from the publisher for a fair review. The same problem repeated: I couldn't follow, or had zoned out, how Dewey got the real bomb replaced by the fake one he had made.
It also took way too long to get things moving. I don't mean the plot but the telling of it. IMO it would have been better-paced if it was a couple of hours shorter. It's a book best read or listened to accompanied by the ebook, IMO. Unless you're familiar with handling nuclear bombs. Not only am I totally unfamiliar with that, I'm new to the action-thriller genre.
I loved the first two books and was looking forward to this one because it had Kohl Meier but, in the end, the whole operation to steal Iran's nuclear bomb, went a bit over my head.
I'm still not sure how Dewey stole the bomb and view spoiler [replaced it with the fake hide spoiler ]. Throughout the book I felt on edge and anxious about Kohl under torture. He's A baby. I'm a mother of 4 boys. I'd give them bad guys the secrets of the universe, I'm sure.
I didn't like that it took so long to get the rescue of Kohl going. Yes, the bomb is more important and the US President doesn't want to get involved with the rescue of Kohl as it's totally Israel's problem. Dewey sees different since he figures he owes Kohl his life but that darn nuclear bomb is in the way so Dewey has to take care of that first while he plans Kohl's rescue. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for Kohl as the kangaroo court is underway and his execution draws nearer.
Once again, the pace is frenetic and again, after each Dewey Andreas book I have to listen to something totally different just to bring my pulse rate back down. I stopped only because I'm addicted to my morning coffee. I plan to continue once I post this review! This being the third book in a contemporary action series, I was a little concerned going in to it. So how would this third one stack up? Don't get me wrong; This being the third book in a contemporary action series, I was a little concerned going in to it.
Don't get me wrong; it was well written, and I enjoyed getting to see some of the major returning characters fleshed out a little more. But I was concerned about the plot cruising along on "neutral". Book marketers for this type of fiction like to say their plots are "ripped right from today's headlines". This story would seem to be the same as it involves Iran and their emerging nuclear weapons program and our protagonist, Dewey Andreas, would obviously and predictably be in the middle of whatever happened.
I have come to rely on this author to provide new slants on overused plots and this novel turned out to vindicate my belief in him. The story soon turned everything on its head and nothing was predictable. The supporting cast is well drawn and Dewey himself showed that he is not the perfect, untouchable, hero that I've seen in so many similar novels and does, in fact, have vulnerabilities. The pacing is spot on and the characters whether politicians, terrorists, good guys or bad guys were well rounded and believable.
Thankfully, the author relies on good storytelling techniques and not an inundation of tech terms that are unnecessary. The ending was spectacular and satisfying. Ben Coes has made the transition from "new" author to one of my go-to authors for a great read. Sep 01, Ed rated it really liked it Shelves: action , thriller , knight-errant , espionage.
The series rushes along at a breakneck pace. All the better to obscure the gaps in logic and the leaps of faith required to swallow the abilities of our hero. But never mind that, you didn't read this book for a sober exposition of the Iranian efforts to become a nuclear nation and its ongoing enmity towards Israel.
Israeli commando Kohl Meir great-grandson of Golda Meir and his team rescued Dewey Andreas at the end of "Coup d'Etat" , losing six of the team in the process. Meir is in the U. Martin's Publishing Group. With time running out to stop the nuclear destruction of Tel Aviv, Dewey Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet. Off a quiet street in Brooklyn, New York, Israeli Special Forces commander Kohl Meir is captured by operatives of the Iranian secret service, who smuggle Meir back to Iran, where he is imprisoned, tortured, and prepared for a show trial.
Meir had been tipped off that Iran had finally succeeded in building their first nuclear weapon, one they were planning to use to attack Israel.
His source was a high-level Iranian government official and his proof was a photo of the bomb itself. Now, to repay his debt, Dewey has to attempt the impossible —-to both rescue Meir from one of the world's most secure prisons and to find and eliminate Iran's nuclear bomb before it's deployed—-all without the help or sanction of Israel or America at the near certain risk of detection by Iran.
Now Dewey has to face off against, outwit, and outfight an opponent with equal cunning, skill, and determination, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance.
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