by Ben Coes
First published 2015
Dewey Andreas stares at another failed mission report. The former Delta Force operator turned CIA agent has been spiraling since his fiancée's murder. His superiors have lost faith in him. His focus has vanished. Meanwhile, Cloud, a master Russian hacker, has stolen a nuclear weapon and loaded it onto a fishing trawler bound for America. The bomb can level a major city. Cloud plans to detonate it on July Fourth as part of a personal revenge plot. The CIA sends two elite teams into Russia to capture Cloud, but both squads walk into an ambush. With America's best agents trapped or dead, only the disgraced Dewey Andreas remains. He must track down the most dangerous adversary of his career while racing against the clock. The stolen nuke is already crossing the Atlantic. If Dewey fails to stop Cloud, America will face its deadliest terrorist attack on Independence Day.
Genres: adventure, thriller, action, espionage
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: disgraced-hero, race-against-the-clock
Setting: America, Russia
Period: July Fourth
514 pages · Paperback · Pan Macmillan Fictio
Content warnings: violence