After
reading The Last Refuge, I have to ask: Is it time to add the name Dewey
Andreas to the list of tough, patriotic operators that include Scot Harvath and
Mitch Rapp?
Andreas is
the creation of author Ben Coes, a guy who would clearly fit in nicely with the
likes of Brad Thor and Vince Flynn the creators of Harvath and Rapp. Coes works
the street corner where politics and terrorism intersect.
While Coes
comes from the political side of that equation, having served as a speechwriter
during the Reagan and George H W Bush administrations and as Mitt Romney’s
campaign manager during his successful run for Massachusetts Governor, he
clearly grasps the danger that terrorists pose to liberty.
Andreas is
your classic, self-reliant, rules be damned hero who cuts his own path in
taking out the bad guys. The Last Refuge takes on a ripped from today’s
headlines quality, with the storyline of Iran developing a nuclear weapon that
it plans to smuggle into Israel.
The Last
Refuge, moves at a blistering, race the clock pace as Andreas moves through
exotic locales, crosses paths with characters who are most comfortable working
the underbelly of the world, as he tries to thread the needle of not only
derailing Iran’s plot to destroy Israel, but to free his friend, a Mossad agent
from an Iranian prison.
Along the
way clueless politicians and bureaucrats attempt to put roadblocks in Andreas’ way,
all in the name of political considerations. All in all it adds up to a fun
read and the hope that somewhere out there is a guy like Andreas looking out
for us.
