Below is the complete list of Ben Coes books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Dewey Andreas Books
- Hijack (2026)
Hijack was first published in 2026; within the Dewey Andreas series, it is listed as book #10.
Publication Order of Dewey Andreas Short Stories/Novellas Books
Publication Order of Rob Tacoma Books
About Ben Coes
Ben Coes is an American thriller writer best known for the Dewey Andreas series, a sequence of international espionage novels built around terrorism, intelligence operations, geopolitical conflict, and an unusually formidable former soldier drawn repeatedly into threats against the United States. His background in government, politics, energy, and business gives his fiction a particular interest in the institutions behind national-security crises—the White House, intelligence agencies, energy infrastructure, military operations, and the private organizations capable of influencing them.
Coes attended Columbia College, where he received the Bennett Cerf Memorial Prize for writing. Before becoming a novelist, he worked in Washington and served as a White House-appointed speechwriter to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. His later career included work in the energy industry for businessman T. Boone Pickens, involvement in political campaigns, entrepreneurship, and a fellowship at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. These experiences provided a practical foundation for thrillers in which government decision-making and private power frequently collide.
He introduced Dewey Andreas in Power Down, a high-stakes thriller involving coordinated attacks on major American energy assets. Dewey begins as a former Army Ranger and Delta operative who has attempted to leave violence behind, only to find himself at the center of a terrorist conspiracy. The novel established the combination that would define the series: rapid international action, large geopolitical stakes, intelligence tradecraft, military capability, and a protagonist whose personal loyalties often become inseparable from his missions.
Subsequent novels send Dewey into conflicts involving Pakistan and India, Iran, China, Russia, ISIS, internal political conspiracies, and attacks on American soil. While each book introduces a distinct crisis, Dewey’s friendships, losses, relationships with senior intelligence officials, and evolving role within the national-security apparatus give the sequence considerable continuity. Hector Calibrisi and other recurring figures become part of a professional circle that repeatedly depends upon Dewey when conventional agencies cannot operate openly.
After Bloody Sunday, Coes temporarily shifted attention to Rob Tacoma, a former Navy SEAL previously connected to the Dewey Andreas world. The Russian launched Tacoma as the protagonist of a separate series centered on a covert American effort to destroy a powerful Russian criminal organization. The novel retains Coes’s preference for elite operators and clandestine action while giving Tacoma a distinct mission and background.
Dewey returned as the principal character in The Island, which places Manhattan under coordinated terrorist attack while the U.S. president is in New York. Coes later resumed the series again with Hijack, published in 2026. The novel puts Dewey aboard a passenger aircraft targeted by Iranian suicide attackers while also confronting him with Nebuchar Fortuna, a surviving member of the terrorist family whose actions reach back to the earliest books. The return to that history reinforces the cumulative nature of the series despite the gap between installments.
Coes’s thrillers favor momentum, physical action, clear geopolitical stakes, and protagonists prepared to operate beyond ordinary institutional limits. His villains are often positioned within governments, terrorist movements, intelligence services, or criminal organizations powerful enough to threaten entire states. Rather than writing restrained spy fiction centered primarily on surveillance and bureaucracy, he works in the tradition of the modern action thriller, where political strategy ultimately becomes personal combat.
His bibliography is dominated by Dewey Andreas, with the Rob Tacoma novel forming a related but separately identified branch. Taken together, the books reflect Coes’s sustained interest in national security, political power, energy, loyalty, and the individuals asked to act when governments discover that official procedures are no longer enough.