Dewey Andreas Saves the Day ... Again!

I enjoyed Power Down by the same author so decided to get this one as well. No regrets. The same semi super-hero main character (Dewey Andreas) from Power Down is in Coup D'Etat and once again he takes us on a wild ride that kept me listening at all hours. The plotline is excellent, characters are perfect for the plot and the pace is nice and fast, just how I most enjoy listening. Definitely recommend for thriller lovers. Plenty of action!

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The Story Continues...

I really enjoyed the first book "Power Down" - and Dewey Andreas did not let us down. Dewey is not our typical protagonist he has these moments where you see his soft side but then he flips that switch and he becomes scary bad. Only thing I think drew away from this was the reader - you could hear him breath in right before he spoke after a while I did not notice it but it was distracting at first.

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should have stopped at Power Down

What would have made Coup d'Etat better?

Either the author has forgotten or not read the previous book Power Down, or I have a serious case of amnesia. This second book and reading suffers from a number of inconsistency issues:

First (and most annoying) this book references an intense sexual attraction between two of the lead characters, Dewey and Jessica, making several detailed references to their affair. Yet, in Power Down Dewey and Jessica had no such relationship, no photo was taken with the President, as Dewey skipped the hospital and town before anyone could give it to him.

Second, the reading of Jessica in Power Down is clearly with an Irish accent while in this reading she is given an American one.

Third, the writing style and character build here seems inconsistent (and not of the same quality) to Power Down. Did Ben Coes write this book? Here, Dewey is portrayed as cavalier, not taking the danger he faces seriously (note the comments Jessica makes when he returns her call for the first time)...yet this is precisely the motivation given to him in Power Down and the very reason that drove him to skip town and head to Australia - the furthest place he could find.

And fourth, the characterisation of the bad guys out to get him is comical and inconsistent with the respect offered them in Power Down. Here they are portrayed as argumentative idiots, hating each other almost more than Dewey - without any back story justification.

Has Coup d'Etat turned you off from other books in this genre?

No, its just turned me off this series. Big disappointment as Power Down was a great read (with the exception being that it references local police as being armed with M60s instead of M16s)

What three words best describe David de Vries’s performance?

Not Peter Hermann

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

Any additional comments?

I am struggling to finish listening to this book.

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Entertaining Story but...

I really want to like these books but the author doesn't help. You get the feeling he was a B student while Vince Flynn was the A+. Not because Vince's stories were better but because he did a better job in research and getting the details right. For example:

The "muzzle" of a gun is not a "nozzle" the "magazine" of a gun in not a "clip" and a "suppressor" is not a true silencer that allows you to shoot any bullet you want at any time and no one else will hear it. All it is does is suppress the sound. Also you cannot fly internationally with a loaded 1911 and a knife strapped to your leg. Just saying mistakes like this makes the book feel lazy in a otherwise entertaining story. I literally winced at times....

If you can look past that you will be entertained!

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Maybe even better than the first one!

Great follow up to the first book, READ THE FIRST BOOK FIRST. One NOTE TO THE AUTHOR, guns do NOT have NOZZLES!! I suspect this is an editorial mess up, they have barrels, and muzzles but NOT nozzles. The editor uses this word exclusivley throught both Andreas books and its drivin me NUTSO! Of course our hero kills all the bad guys and sits and stews about the injustice of the world and woe is me crap. Please, stop with the tortured warrior stuff, nobobdy buys it and if they hated it so much, THEY'D QUIT!

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Too many little things

I think coes got a weapon catalog and copied from it. But the muzzle of a gun is a "nozzle?" Our freedom was won with s shotgun??

In one book Dewey survived training in the swamp eating snakes. In this one he spears fish.

Slashing is the same as stabbing? Anything, floor of building or airplane is " ground"?

I enjoy the books but the little things drive me crazy.

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Dewey Andreas, my new favorite superhero!

What other book might you compare Coup d'Etat to and why?

Power Down, Coes' first book--riveting, exciting, almost non-stop action.

Any additional comments?

Dewey Andreas is a character in the mold of Jack Reacher from Lee Childs, Mitch Rapp from Vince Flynn, and John Wells from Alex Berenson--morally superior guys fighting for justice and always in the thick of a problem, but with special skills: CIA assasins, ex-Seals, and Military Police investigators. They can be hard to keep apart, as fans of this genre know, but they can be counted on to beat any number of bad guys eventually, save the girl/country/world, and even make mistakes once in awhile to keep them (almost) human. Dewey is the best of the bunch, in my view, and both of the Dewey Andreas books are superbly exciting with just enough believable current events to make them very hard to put down.

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Intellectual Thriller - Awsome

Where does Coup d'Etat rank among all the audiobooks you???ve listened to so far?

Definitly in the Top 10% which is saying something, since all I read or listen to are political thrillers.

Any additional comments?

Ben Coes is clearly a man that does in depth research before writing his books. This is the second book in the Dewey Andreas series. Andreas is the hero that was introduced in Coes first book of the series Power Down, where Andreas is a supervisor on an Oil Rig off South America when terrorists attack and destroy the platform, throwing the hero into action to protect his country (the United States) and seek revenge. In Coup d?????tat, Andreas is "Called to Action" by the President of the United States, who following the events of the previous book, now sees Andreas as a National Asset and the only man that can carry out the mission. Andreas, leading a quiet life on a ranch in Australia, is tasked with overthrowing the corrupt leader of Pakistan before he drops another nuclear warhead on India.
Like most people, I am not clear on all of the inter-relations and workings of the various Middle East groups and governments. What Ben Coes describes and paints in this book, certainly "feels" right and because of that, the reader is almost immediately sucked in to the idea that a corrupt leader brought to power in a nuclear State like Pakistan really could drop a bomb on a nuclear India and throw the world into irrevocable war.
If there is a criticism, I would have to say it is in the unnecessary detail that at some points causes the story to labor (just a bit) and distracts from the action. For example, it seems our hero, Dewey Andreas, cannot get into a shootout with anyone without a full catalog description of the weapons everyone is using including Manufacturer, Model, sub-models, iterations of the weapon not involved in the battle but available if one were to have wanted it, the ammo, rate of fire, etc. etc. etc. Now I like detail, but at some point, I found myself just wanting a nice simple good guy bad guy shootout.
That said, all of the details, be they true or fiction I don't know, seem to be plausible if not true. The cause and effect of the various action choices seem to be realistic, and the flow of the story is so seemingly possible that one wonders if the story plot is actually drawn from real plans once uncovered by intelligence people somewhere.
Good, fun, thought provoking story.

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Awesome

I can see why Vince Flynn and others say Cole is a new author to watch. This is one of the best action/espionage books I've read in a long time. It is non stop action and yet not like a video game. It is believable,scary and very exciting all at the same time. I'm really looking forward to reading anything else that Cole writes in the series!! If you like Ludlum, Flynn and other books like them, you will absolutely love this one! Don't miss it!!!!

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Good book, just a few small things

This is a great story and I am all for character development but this book details the other characters in the book much more than the main character. ALSO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLLY, STOP CALLING THE END OF A FIREARM A “NOZZLE”. The word you are looking for is MUZZLE. Please this makes you look ignorant on one of the main “props” of the subject you are writing about.

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