Review by Booklist Review
*Starred Review* A Russian hacker, known only as Cloud, watched his family assassinated when he was a young boy, and now he has the capability to bestow justice on his enemies. Meanwhile, Dewey Andreas wants to give up being an American intelligence agent, but he keeps getting dragged back in, even though he's still grieving the death of the love of his life. This time the mission is to capture Cloud, but Andreas quickly goes rogue, tracking Cloud on his own but also shadowing a parallel mission involving Cloud's ballerina girlfriend. Turns out there is a nuclear device set to go off on the Fourth of July, and the rogue Dewey has the best chance of stopping it. Coes is in the same league as Brad Thor and Vince Flynn, and this high-octane race against time will have plot-driven thriller readers unable to turn the pages fast enough. Libraries should grab this one in quantity and make sure Coes' backlist is available as well.--Ayers, Jeff Copyright 2015 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Compelling characters, a wealth of technical detail, and ticking-clock suspense make bestseller Coes's fifth Dewey Andreas novel (after 2013's Eye for an Eye) one of the year's best thrillers. CIA director Hector Calibrisi draws the ex-Delta operative turned CIA agent back into action from Dewey's hometown of Castine, Maine, where he retreated after the death of his fiancée six months earlier. Dewey winds up searching for a genius Russian computer hacker, Pyotr Vargarin (aka Cloud), who's acquired a nuclear weapon and is bent on wreaking revenge for earlier ill treatment at American hands. Cloud has hacked his way into the CIA computer system and is always one step ahead as bodies pile up and Dewey goes off the grid to save the U.S. The attack is scheduled for the Fourth of July, which gives Dewey and his comrades only a few days to stop Cloud. Last-minute twists ratchet up the tension as the book races to the final confrontation. 100,000-copy first printing. Agent: Nicole James, Aaron M. Priest Literary Agency. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Elite operative Dewey Andreas returns to protect America from nuclear annihilation. In Coes' (Eye for an Eye, 2013, etc.) last novel, Dewey was dealing with the death of his true love by dishing out a hearty helping of remorseless violence on his path to vengeance. At the beginning of this new adventure, we find Dewey hiding out from the world in his childhood home, the quaint fishing village of Castine, Maine. Dewey, however, cannot escape his former life as an elite Delta operator and the classified missions from his days in the CIA as a nonofficial cover agent. When Dewey's friend and former boss, CIA Director Hector Calibrisi, finds him, Dewey is reluctantly brought back into the fold of covert operations. While his first mission is a relatively simple assault of a drug operation in Mexico, a much larger threat looms on the horizon. A mysterious, but legendary, computer hacker known only as Cloud acquired a black-market nuclear bomb from a Russian Mafia kingpin and, with the help of Chechen jihadis, is planning a terrorist attack on America's birthday, the Fourth of July. To prevent this atrocity, Dewey must regain his stone-cold composure and his unique talent of accomplishing the mission at all costs. Along the way, a degree of insight into the current sociopolitical dynamic between Russia and the U.S., and inside the American political landscape, gives this action-packed thriller a sense of realism. A realistic and entertaining page turner. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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