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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 ISISs 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 truthunknown at even the highest levels in the governmentthat ISISs 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 optionDewey Andreas.
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"Coes muscular, get-to-the-point prose is perfectly matched by Hermanns deep, muscular narration." Booklist
BEN COES is the New York Times best-selling author ofinternational political and espionage thrillers that include Power Down, Coup D'Etat, The Last Refuge, Eye For An Eye and Independence Day.
His next book, which comes out in June 2016, is First Strike.
Ben worked at the White House under President Ronald Reagan and was a White House appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy during the Gulf War. He was a Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School ofGovernment. He is a partner at The Mustang Group, a Boston alternativeinvestment firm. He graduated from Columbia College, where he won theBennett Cerf Memorial Prize for Fiction.
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