Bloody Sunday
A Thriller
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4.4 • 982 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series.
North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal—he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond.
What the U.S. doesn't know is that North Korea has made a deal with Iran. In exchange for effective missiles from Iran, they will trade nuclear triggers and fissionable material. An exchange, if it goes through, that will create two new nuclear powers, both with dangerous plans.
Dewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. But he's the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA's plan to stop North Korea. The plan is to inject a singular designer poison into the head of the North Korean military and in exchange for the nuclear plans, provide him with the one existing dose of the antidote. But it goes awry when Dewey manages to inject a small amount of the poison into himself. Now, to survive, Dewey must get into North Korea and access the antidote and, while there, thwart the nuclear ambitions of both North Korea and Iran. And he has less than 24 hours to do so—in the latest thriller from Ben Coes.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Thriller author Ben Coes imagines a nuclear deal between Iran and North Korea, giving his eighth Dewey Andreas novel an unsettling ripped-from-the-headlines feel. In this installment, the CIA agent goes undercover for a dangerous assassination mission that doesn’t go as planned. While some of his plot twists are outlandish, Coes ratchets up the thrills by playing Bloody Sunday absolutely straight. After all, his story's no more disturbing and absurd than the real news coming out of the Korean peninsula.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A simple premise drives bestseller Coes's excellent eighth thriller featuring indomitable CIA agent Dewey Andreas (after 2017's Trap the Devil): North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un is dying of cancer. With less than a month to live, Jong-un decides to go out in a blaze of nuclear glory and take two American cities with him. All he needs is a couple of long-range missiles, and it so happens that his ally Iran is happy to supply them. Dewey has personal reasons for wanting to quit the spy business, but U.S. president J.P. Dellenbaugh talks him into staying on and dealing with the North Korean threat. CIA newcomer Jenna Hartford, on loan from MI6, has designed a mission to poison Gen. Pak Yong-sik, head of the North Korean armed forces, and force him to divulge Korean secrets in exchange for an antidote for the poison. It's a complicated mission, and in the end only Dewey has the skills, courage, and sheer badass tenacity to pull it off. A ticking clock ratchets up the tension in the best entry in the series so far.
Customer Reviews
As good as they get
Ben Coes never disappoints. Could not put this one down
Interesting story line!
Fascinating story line, that keeps you regarding regardless of thinking this is outlandish. Dewey Andreas is nothing short of Superman without the cape! I won’t be back for other Coes books.
Bloody Sunday
Nice story but could use better editing. Too much Dewey this, Dewey that, Dewey, Dewey, Dewey, toward the end of the book. On my e-reader it wasn’t uncommon to see Dewey’s name 10 or 15 times on one page. Finally, the feats of Andreas border on the ridiculous. All that said, Coes hasn’t lost me as a reader yet.