Dewey Andreas

About the Dewey Andreas series

Dewey Andreas is an ex-Army Ranger turned covert operative whose missions repeatedly put him at the center of plots to cripple American infrastructure, assassinate world leaders, or trigger a war between nuclear powers. Ben Coes launched the series in 2010 with Power Down, in which Andreas -- then working as a private contractor -- survives a terrorist attack on a Maine oil refinery and is drawn into a wider conspiracy against the U.S. energy grid. Later books escalate the stakes and Andreas's standing: he's recruited into the CIA's paramilitary Special Activities Division and repeatedly finds himself the last line of defense against attacks aimed at the President, Wall Street, or entire cities.

Coes writes from an unusually well-connected vantage point for a thriller novelist: he was a White House intern under Reagan, a speechwriter for a cabinet secretary under George H.W. Bush, and a campaign manager for Mitt Romney, and he has said the series' brutal, procedural violence draws on his godfather's career as a Navy SEAL. That insider grounding, plus the story's steady escalation from single-target thriller to geopolitical crisis, has drawn comparisons to Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy and kept the series a fixture on bestseller lists across its ten novels and one novella.